Anyone know why it’s so hard to make friends?
I am generally speaking of in person friends.. but it also applies virtually?
26-30, F
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BlueVeins · 26-30
200 years ago, life was pretty boring. When you go to the store for some potatoes or whatever, you're walking down a busy street full of other pedestrians, and there's like a town crier and kids walking the street. If you were sick and needed soup delivered to your house, you needed to ask your neighbor for help, and you better be on good terms with them for them to go through the trouble. If you want to hang out alone, your options are like, playing solitaire or lighting a candle and reading a book. So instead, you would go to your friend's house and ask to play baseball or whatever.
Today, a million different apps and websites and games are competing for our attention all day, every day. When you go to the store, you go there (probably) in a sealed metal box and talk to nobody, and you check out your items with a machine. If you need soup delivered to your house when you're sick, you order it on an app, and an underpaid gig worker brings it over, who you never see again. If you want to hang out alone, you can find infinite entertainment on your computer screen, HUNDREDS OF LIFETIMES worth of content to engage with and there's no hope of getting through it all.
Everyone has shittier social skills now. It has become less normalized to talk to strangers. Modernity is slowly killing us and there's not enough political will to fix it. So instead we all just suffer.
Today, a million different apps and websites and games are competing for our attention all day, every day. When you go to the store, you go there (probably) in a sealed metal box and talk to nobody, and you check out your items with a machine. If you need soup delivered to your house when you're sick, you order it on an app, and an underpaid gig worker brings it over, who you never see again. If you want to hang out alone, you can find infinite entertainment on your computer screen, HUNDREDS OF LIFETIMES worth of content to engage with and there's no hope of getting through it all.
Everyone has shittier social skills now. It has become less normalized to talk to strangers. Modernity is slowly killing us and there's not enough political will to fix it. So instead we all just suffer.
