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We’ve lost our “village”, those third spaces that provided extended family and friends networks. American “self-reliance” has generated a separated society that has stripped a lot of the support and social network we used to have in favor of a job, a home separate from extended family, and a standalone family unit on their own against the world. Too hard to meet new people, too few clubs, too little money to get into a lot of hobbies, too little free time to spend it on anything other than rest and trying to stay sane.
Ironically, it's social networks that helped kill our social networks.
It was 99% car dependancy, and the 40hr work week.
Every person is now isolated at home, in transit, at work, at the store, everywhere. There is no middle places where people organically meet.
Social media is not a problem when it comes to people being social, despite all of the conjecture with no real links.