[beezlebroxxxxxx]

The loss of "public life" in NA is a fairly well documented phenomenon. Putnam's Bowling Alone was a famous warning shot that we never quite reacted to. For a whole host of reasons, many people nowadays, and especially many young people, are lonely in a way and scale that is hard to imagine 50 or 60 years ago.

Btw this doesn't just include young people. People needing youtube on to eat is just another variation on needing the TV on. I know and have read about some elderly people that keep the weather channel or 24hr news on all day out of sheer loneliness. Across the board people are just lonely in numbers that lead it could be called an epidemic by many health and mental health organizations.

This experiment left me feeling unclean for a different reason: this person essentially just hired a retinue of servants.

[strikelaserclaw]

social media is the mcdonalds of feeling like you have a community, it robs individuals of the drive to go out and make real connections.