It didn’t used to be. At least for me and i don’t recall constantly seeing posts on social media about how lonely and sad everyone was or how to make friends. Now every other magazine article is about how lonely everyone is, nobody gets together, and gen Z doesn’t socialize, drink, or have sex.
Why is there such an epidemic of loneliness and why are people content to be lonely rather than socialize?
Why is so hard to connect? Because people having nothing in common anymore? I used to connect with people over books, movies, hobbies, etc. But now it feels increasingly hard to do that. Most folks I meet don’t care about any of that, they just mostly complain about their lives to you or go on political rants about how unfair the world is.
My friends and my dates no longer seem to watch films, or do much of anything other than spend time on social media? I dont’ use social media so I’m pretty ignorant of it all.
This was briefly touched upon during the Nexus conference, which I was reading about in an article just before browsing Lemmy and coming across this post. Although it offers no answers, it seems relevant as it might deepen the understanding of the problem:
The original article was in another language, no other paragraphs were relevant, so source has been omitted. Feel free to ask though, I’ll share (a translation of) the article.
This place was great when technology ran free. The internet is way way way more controlled than it was 25 years ago. Many folks don’t see it that way because there are billions of people on here now and the control isn’t being done by government censors, but in the end, there’s nothing “running free” in today’s modern internet. If you replace that quote with “My generation realizes that the promise of ‘let billionaires with profit motives run free and everything will be fine’ is not true” sounds like something a moron would say.
Nah, that sounds like something someone based would say.