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>People still live together More and more people are staying with their parents because they can't afford to move out. >people still go to school together Mo
by AussieWog93 4y ago
>People still live together
More and more people are staying with their parents because they can't afford to move out.
>people still go to school together
More and more people are doing online/remote learning. During the pandemic, all learning went remote and it ruined childrens' social skills.
>people still have interests out of work
Less and less of these out-of-work interests involve regular, face-to-face social interaction and community building.
>people still go to bars and clubs
People are definitely going to pubs less - this is an issue that has been in the media for a decade and a half. When people do go to pubs, clubs and bars they're less likely to talk to people they don't know. People are certainly less likely to chat up a member of the opposite sex at a bar in 2023 compared to even 2013.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoThe housing issue I will give you. The Covid related ones are not dismantling the places young people meet, that was a public health emergency that will not continue forever. If people are choosing not to meet in person now, that is also not dismantling the places people meet. That is a choice. I know that the isolation of Covid has had a terrible effect on young people's mental health and I do not want to diminish that. But it isn't a dismantling of the places they could meet for the main part.
- Gigachad 4y ago>If people are choosing not to meet in person now, that is also not dismantling the places people meet. That is a choice. We are seeing a whole generation miss out on social connections, reporting mass loneliness and depression. You can't just hand wave that away "they made a choice". If an individual does something, its a choice, if an entire generation does something, its the environment that changed.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoOk, something has changed then. But it does not appear to me to be the result of dismantling the places where people could meet in person. I'm not trying to handwave it away. Maybe the internet and social media is encouraging people to forge remote connections rather than physical ones?
- AussieWog93 4y agoI agree with you that it's not a deliberate dismantling, but (as much as it pains me to say this) Gigachad's right that there's at least a decay of sorts. Call it network effects working in reverse, or a change in incentives, but there really are less serendipitous encounters in young peoples' lives.
- JohnFen 4y agoI honestly think that what has changed is the dominance of social media.