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0 pointsalpaca1281y ago0 comments

It's great that you have a good social life, but calling this problem illusory based on just your anecdotal experience is just denying reality when you look at statistics:

> 52% of Americans report feeling lonely while 47% report their relationships with others are not meaningful

> 55% of London residents say they feel lonely

> Social isolation is a problem in Europe: 18% of its citizens, the equivalent of 75 million people, are socially isolated

> 43% of those aged 17-25 feel lonely and less than half of them feel loved

> The suicide rate for persons aged 10–14 [..] nearly tripled from 2007 to 2017

https://www.rootsofloneliness.com/loneliness-statistics

> Thirty years ago, a majority of men (55 percent) reported having at least six close friends. Today, that number has been cut in half. Slightly more than one in four (27 percent) men have six or more close friends today. Fifteen percent of men have no close friendships at all, a fivefold increase since 1990

https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-circles...

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renewiltord1y ago

These all have the smell of “50% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” type nonsense and there are sufficient counter findings that I don’t think there’s any good evidence here https://news.gallup.com/poll/470888/americans-largely-satisf...

I think I’m likely correct. This is a manufactured crisis like seed oils, or ADHD and autism diagnoses. Nothing is actually getting worse.

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