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Our loneliness epidemic
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:07 am
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:07 am
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There’s a mountain of evidence suggesting that the quality of our relationships has been in steady decline for decades. In the 1980s, 20 percent of Americans said they were often lonely. Now it’s 40 percent. Suicide rates are now at a 30-year high. Depression rates have increased tenfold since 1960, which is not only a result of greater reporting. Most children born to mothers under 30 are born outside marriage. There’s been a steady 30-year decline in Americans’ satisfaction with the peer-to-peer relationships at work.
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I summarize all this because loneliness and social isolation are the problems that undergird many of our other problems. More Americans are socially poor. And yet it is very hard for the socially wealthy to even see this fact. It is the very nature of loneliness and social isolation to be invisible.
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:12 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Trying to 1up pecker huh
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:13 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Nothing a lil R&R in K’port can’t fix, my dear fellow.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:13 am to GreatLakesTiger24
quote:What is this bullshite?
More Americans are socially poor. And yet it is very hard for the socially wealthy to even see this fact.
Not that Scruffy disagrees with the topic discussed, but this is just the creation of another stupid characterization.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:15 am to GreatLakesTiger24
This article makes me feel lonely.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:18 am to S
quote:undoubtedly!
Nothing a lil R&R in K’port can’t fix, my dear fellow.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:18 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:21 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Although certainly not the only cause of depression, loneliness, etc., I firmly believe that the increase in depression correlates with the rise of, and now pervasive use of, social media.
Each social media user is now comparing his/her life with the best snippets of others persons' lives. It is immensely injurious.
Moreover, the time people spend on social media, and ogling pictures of their nemesis and their perfect *home* *children* *husband* *vacation* is time spent away from their families, from hobbies, etc.
I have been off of social media for years, and my overall happiness spiked after I cut myself off. Sure, I don't know that some whore from high school had her third meth baby. But I have grown closer to the people I actually care about, because I need to make an effort to keep a relationship with them.
Each social media user is now comparing his/her life with the best snippets of others persons' lives. It is immensely injurious.
Moreover, the time people spend on social media, and ogling pictures of their nemesis and their perfect *home* *children* *husband* *vacation* is time spent away from their families, from hobbies, etc.
I have been off of social media for years, and my overall happiness spiked after I cut myself off. Sure, I don't know that some whore from high school had her third meth baby. But I have grown closer to the people I actually care about, because I need to make an effort to keep a relationship with them.
This post was edited on 5/1/18 at 8:26 am
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:25 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I would seriously consider voting yes to legislation that would end Facebook / Instagram / SnapChat.
Force people to talk to each other again. I am an introvert by nature but some of the best times I've had in my life revolved around a team sport or having a great circle of friends.
Admittedly as you get older and move into having a family that can become more difficult, but still, I can't help but feel that social media has had equal negative aspects along with the positive ones.
Force people to talk to each other again. I am an introvert by nature but some of the best times I've had in my life revolved around a team sport or having a great circle of friends.
Admittedly as you get older and move into having a family that can become more difficult, but still, I can't help but feel that social media has had equal negative aspects along with the positive ones.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:28 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Having a social life takes effort. We've gotten lazy with the immediate (albeit empty) gratification of the internet.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:31 am to 50_Tiger
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I would seriously consider voting yes to legislation that would end Facebook / Instagram / SnapChat.
It isn't just social media. It is the internet. It is online gaming. It is message boards like this.
And humans talk to each other more than anytime in history. It just isn't satisfying us as much as we want.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:33 am to 50_Tiger
If you get rid of snapchat I'll start my own. Where else can I send a cool picture to 10 chicks at the same time and they all think that they're the only one I sent it to?
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:34 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Suicide rates are now at a 30-year high.
Lets see your evidence that Suicide rates are up and it's not just a case of the stigma being lifted and it being reported as it's try cause more often now.
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Depression rates have increased tenfold since 1960
Care to correlate that with the improvements in modern medicine and diagnosis and also the stigma of mental illness being (somewhat) lifted.
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Most children born to mothers under 30 are born outside marriage.
While I have no evidence to counter this it just seems stupid considering just a few decades ago it was common for girls to be married and pregnant by 15 or 16 YO.
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More Americans are socially poor. And yet it is very hard for the sociallyquote:to even see this fact.
wealthy
And there's the wedge to further keep people fighting among themselves.
You seem very gullible.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:35 am to GreatLakesTiger24
If baby boomers hadn't ruined the economy millenials wouldn't be killing themselves
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:35 am to Salmon
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It isn't just social media. It is the internet. It is online gaming. It is message boards like this.
And humans talk to each other more than anytime in history. It just isn't satisfying us as much as we want.
Well, the entire globe is now tied into IoT so things would have to start small in scale considerably.
We can also attribute at least in America, the average per hour work week has increased and wages were not up til 18 months ago.
People work longer and during their downtime, watch their friends from high school pretend to live lavish lifestyles on Facebook.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:35 am to GreatLakesTiger24
I always used to like this quote by Hunter S. Thompson:
But then I remember he killed himself. So maybe don't put too much stock into that quote.
quote:
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
But then I remember he killed himself. So maybe don't put too much stock into that quote.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:40 am to GreatLakesTiger24
https://physicsoflife.pl/dict/calhoun's_experiment.html
There's other reasons, like safety and security plummet as multiculturalism increases. There is little to no identity for quite a few, so no sense of greater belonging, no sense of purpose.
There's other reasons, like safety and security plummet as multiculturalism increases. There is little to no identity for quite a few, so no sense of greater belonging, no sense of purpose.
This post was edited on 5/1/18 at 8:41 am
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:53 am to GreatLakesTiger24
So what.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 8:56 am to Scruffy
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What is this bullshite?
Couldn't tell you, I'm socially wealthy.
Posted on 5/1/18 at 9:04 am to GreatLakesTiger24
When we refuse to suffer, when we refuse to feel
Your life becomes a bore
And you’re suffering even more
- Jonathon Richman
Modernity has allowed too much comfort.
The key to life is to open your arms to it all. Love, pain, suffering, joy
But the message of modernity is that the difficult stuff is to be avoided.
Your life becomes a bore
And you’re suffering even more
- Jonathon Richman
Modernity has allowed too much comfort.
The key to life is to open your arms to it all. Love, pain, suffering, joy
But the message of modernity is that the difficult stuff is to be avoided.
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