It's very much in the eye of the beholder, I personally feel way more connected with friends and family and much less lonely with social media than when the tec

It's very much in the eye of the beholder, I personally feel way more connected with friends and family and much less lonely with social media than when the technology was more primitive. This whole "technology alienates us from each other" narrative seems to me like a misguided reaction to social change, nostalgia for a time that never existed - where people were never lonely because they were always face to face or on the phone. (Oh except the geeks interested in boring things like math or science fiction, fuck them.) Perhaps this depends on whether you've lived in many places or travel a lot, and have friends spread throughout the world. Or if you have peculiar interests and meet friends through those shared interests - hard to do if you're in a small town, easy to do online.