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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The expanding prevalence of loneliness

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yes, absolutely. As of right now I have zero friends either online or offline. It's been that way for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you live in the US? If so, what region? Wanna go to a movie sometime and then get pancakes & talk about said movie?

I wouldn't say that I have zero friends, but I certainly don't have the social circle I wish I had. That worries me for my own future. I'm gonna die someday, and I don't want to slip into the abyss feeling totally alone.

And the fact that I don't seem to be an outlier makes me worried for the future health and resiliency of entire communities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I live in South Florida.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, we're a few thousand miles apart, so the pancakes bit might not be feasible lol. On any fun discord servers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Haven't used Discord in a while actually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I like pancakes but I'm in Oregon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I always thought it was just me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nope. I live in the pacific northwest of the US and there's something here called the "Freeze" and some people refer to it as the "ice out" but it's a term for how people in this region don't really like making new friends. A lot of people here are very against talking to strangers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same here. I lost most of my friends after COVID.