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View submission: About loneliness and how our interactions are reducing day by day
We don't have to interact with people who don't conform to our beliefs anymore.
While that may be bad, I don't see how it contributes to loneliness?
Comment by legrolls at 26/11/2024 at 19:34 UTC
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Social media is often used to replace face to face interactions. People feel lonelier due to social comparison — or the act of comparing themselves to others. The more people compare themselves to others while using social media, the less happy they feel. Face to face interactions don't really have this issue due to nuances of nonverbal cues.
There's probably outliers to this concept, but there's tons of research indicating that social media heavily contributes to feelings of loneliness.
A book I read that covered this concept in fantastic detail was The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.