I've worked from home most of my 13 year career, first as a contractor for various clients, later as a full time employee. I definitely noticed an effect about

I've worked from home most of my 13 year career, first as a contractor for various clients, later as a full time employee. I definitely noticed an effect about 2 weeks after I started working from home. I was a bit more socially awkward, more anxious about social interactions. The benefits of working from home are huge, I don't know if I'd be willing to give them up, but I've worried about how it's affecting my personality for my entire career. So many of my hobbies are related to computers or the internet. I moved away from the place I grew up, and all of that has combined to make it hard to meet anyone at all to make new friends with in the real world. I'm married now and have 2 young kids, with even less ability to easily leave the house on my own. I can too easily see a future where I'm 60 with basically no real connection outside of my immediate family, something that I worry about for everyone if we don't figure out some better ways to be social in the real world again. I'm not sure what the point of this reply is, this topic just struck a chord with me.