why are so many so lonely ? why are chatbots more real than real people

@CrazyMusicLover but before we had screens and social media
we hqd real wolrd interactions with each other,, starting quite early
so we learned how to be interactive in the real world
and the real wolrd, has so much more subtlety and depth.
you cant EAT a picture of a tasty meal,
you cant kiss a beloved face over a camera
they are inferior substitutes

@SatyrService Simply interacting with others doesn't help with loneliness though. I've always been the loneliest around other people, stuck in the situations where I was bored or even uncomfortable at times but believed that that was all I could get and that it was still better than nothing.
If you want to engage in conversations and activities that you find interesting, stimulating and fun, you have to have the courage to pursue that instead of playing it safe, stay around people out of politeness or because they picked you and not the other way around or because they are your long-term friends even if you no longer have much to say to each other anymore. You can live all your life off screen but if you're stuck in those same patterns since kindergarten, you'll always be lonely and unfulfilled. And I think that people who have healthy self-confidence and are straightforward around other people are also more likely to have fulfilling real life relationships that prevent them from spending unhealthy amounts of time on social media.

Except homeschool kids, we all have a starting point in some social bubble in a kindergarten or school where we learn to interact, form relationships etc. and maybe if something goes wrong there, it might drag throughout the whole life unless we consciously realize where we make a mistake and fix it. Sadly, nowadays many reach for the quick fix on social media.

@YoMomma a d shy i would suggest shy,, largely because they are in experieinced

@SatyrService ah perhaps

@RedBaron it surely does!

@whowasthatmaskedman sadly, I agree with you