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by wbl 5 days ago
Social media and dating apps together have created this isolation. People can demand a completely comfortable illusion of life and enforce this sterility.
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> Social media and dating apps together have created this isolation

This is not true, dating apps the result of our culture and not causing it.

>Social media and dating apps together have created this isolation.

Work with me here. If you ban all social media and dating apps tomorrow, will you suddenly cured loneliness? I 100% doubt it. This reductionist logic is more like Stalin having all sparrows killed to save the crops.

The causes of problems are not necessarily their solutions
Both the cause and especially the solutions are way too complex to be summarized on HN comment in a few sentences but need an entire essay. Social media and dating apps are 10% tops of the issue. The issue has multiple layers developed over the decades.