[kurtdev]

I feel like the difficulty of finding social networks offline is an effect of the availability of online connections, something that I noticed a lot during the pandemic.

Whenever I talk to people who are much older than me it strikes me how much work and effort goes into the maintenance of their offline social networks. The non-existence (to some older folks) of online social networks doesn't stop them from maintaining relationships, often over the same long distances. It is, like you say, a matter of forming those relationships instead of maintaining them that is getting harder.