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points by ShinyLeftPad 19 hours ago | 0 comments

I think they like socializing decreasingly less

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-ho...

I think there are some valid points to be made about how people's socialising patterns are changing in the light of modern interactions with tech, but also about using US social habits as a proxy for everyone else's. I've rarely entertained people in my home even during my most sociable times, pubs, clubs and restaurants much more frequently figure in my calendar.

All that and the author of this article still needs to get out and touch grass.

[–] ShinyLeftPad 16 hours ago

I think these stats are true for most western developed countries

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-loneliness-epidemic-among...

Telling people to touch grass doesn't magically invert trends.

[–] Nursie 3 hours ago

These are somewhat orthoganal - young people are lonelier != everyone else has a fixed supply of friends and can never make more.

Nor does it change the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble and widening their horizons beyond "things that could conceivably further my career".

[–] ShinyLeftPad 1 hour ago

> the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble

I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend. OK, maybe just one.

Most of my friends would agree with me and with article author. One of them goes further and doesn't even have a smartphone.

IME techies very rarely have these concerns.

So I'm not sure who is in a tech bubble between me and all those people in this thread saying how the logic is illegitimate because the author doesn't go out (which I guess is a "fact" because they all know him personally lol)