Subj : Facebook & online stuff
To : Boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Thu May 22 2025 02:04 pm
Re: Facebook & online stuff
By: Boraxman to Arelor on Thu May 22 2025 08:08 am
> not going out, staying at home was known in the 90s. I recall someone
> talking of "cocooning" in the early 90s, where people were choosing to
> stay at home,
> eat in, etc, instead of going out. So it was talked about back then, and
> that was before the Internet became popular in households.
Kids in the 90s I grew up with would play soccer all afternoon long after homework. Usually they would play soccer all afternoon long skipping homework altogether.
I think people in Spain still go out with outstanding frequency, but the nature of social interaction is specially shallow. People goes out specifically for getting drunk with others and that is what friends are good for. I don't think you can have friends who get interested in your life projects or who you get to help with their life projects anymore.
> Is this trend towards unsatisfactory romantic relationships relatively
> recent, or a longer term trend? I can see how it is true but I'm
> interested in when it started.
It depends on how you define "recent". I think the first ones I read were 5 to 10 years old at the most. I remember thinking a lot of the secondary issues pointed out in those studies seemed linked to Tinder and Tinder-like dating applications.
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