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.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    In many ways technology has made us less human and less tolerable of other people. We are becoming like the humans from Wall-E where they are content to eat and watch slop all day, even losing the ability to walk and think because the machines can do it for them. We are becoming mean, self absorbed blobs!

    Yeah honestly, that is the vibe I get. people just want to watch slop, and make zero effort to do anything. I also notice people just want to do the same slop things, there is less and less of a spirit of adventure or curiousity. people just want the familiar.

    i feel like i used to connect with people over trying new things, going new places, and learning new things but that spirit is very outdated? also being open minded about other people’s lifestyles, politics, etc is now very ‘bad’. it used to be good?