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.
It’s harder to connect over things on social media, because there’s no substance to them. Combine that with higher cost of living (meaning people don’t have disposable income), and you have yourself a loneliness epidemic.
Even as a millenial, my main time for socializing is getting on Discord to play games with a few buddies once per week. Work and family obligations take up the majority of my time.
I agree. the lack of substance is killing me too. I used to connect over like films and have discussions about them. Nobody wants to do that anymore or seems capable of it. In person at least. Most people I meet now haven’t gone to the movies in years and they don’t watch films. They just watch reality TV slop on netflix on repeat while they scroll on their phone and text people.
the last time i took someone out ot the movie was two years ago and they told me the experience made them feel weird and uncomfortable because focusing on one thing for two hours was ‘too intense’.