I assume sleeping isn't counted.
Who Americans spend their time with
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#22Longitudinal data would be informative. I strongly suspect people spent less time alone in the past. (Note: The X-axis is age.) My theories: * Multitude of choices given to us by technology have led to fewer things we pay attention to in common with our friends and neighbors. Thus, fewer shared loci of interaction. Career specialization is another key contributing factor. * More recently, dopamine rush generated by e…
A gender breakdown for both single and married would also be useful. For marriages there should also be another dimension based on the health of the marriage.
Recent literature suggests that men are lonelier than women which incites my curiosity on gender differences in this topic. I've been theorizing that if true, those men who fall further below the envelope of social interaction end up having greater difficulty in developing and maintaining relationships as they age.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook makes events easier to organise if you're happy to organise events which only Facebook members are invited to.
Because to view any Facebook event page you must agree to a Nondisclosure Agreement that restricts you from revealing the particulars of the event to people who do not have Facebook accounts.
Because there's so much more friction involved in including people who don't have Facebook accounts that, eventually, you just stop bothering to do it.
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#24I think the bump just before 20 on the "Alone" graph is really interesting. I'd also like to see the data with genders separated, could be interesting too.
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#25Longitudinal data would be informative. I strongly suspect people spent less time alone in the past. (Note: The X-axis is age.) My theories: * Multitude of choices given to us by technology have led to fewer things we pay attention to in common with our friends and neighbors. Thus, fewer shared loci of interaction. Career specialization is another key contributing factor. * More recently, dopamine rush generated by e…
I'm not convinced by your argument with regard to the multitude of choices. A counter point could be that we should be more likely to have at least something in common with more people. Somebody must be consuming mass-media, problem the masses . I think a better theory to support your point is that we tend to be less religious and therefore less community oriented. I don't really know if that holds up though. We have…
Fwiw, when I got off of Facebook my family decided to explore local churches and found one that has been great. We've made about the same amount of friends there in 6 months that we did living here for 13 years without going there. Plenty of activities too.
When I was on Facebook I found that I was spending significantly more time chatting it up with my friends from college who are all over the country. Not that I don't want to keep in touch with them, but I'd rather be more social with people I can do things with.
Facebook gives you a social crutch. You have to get rid of it and create that gap to feel the need to fill it with something else.
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#26The X-axis really ought to have been labeled. It wasn't obvious that it represented age.
Age is a plausible inference from the data, but labeling the axis would have made the visualization tighter.
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#27Longitudinal data would be informative. I strongly suspect people spent less time alone in the past. (Note: The X-axis is age.) My theories: * Multitude of choices given to us by technology have led to fewer things we pay attention to in common with our friends and neighbors. Thus, fewer shared loci of interaction. Career specialization is another key contributing factor. * More recently, dopamine rush generated by e…
You declare you want more data but on what are you basing your suspicions but ... I suspect not even anecdotes.
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#28I think the bump just before 20 on the "Alone" graph is really interesting. I'd also like to see the data with genders separated, could be interesting too.
It seems that bump is pretty obvious, after school if you are not doing something that regularly has you around other people(college or some job), then time spent alone will increase. For me, the most interesting part here is how this actually goes down a little bit on the late 20s.
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#29Longitudinal data would be informative. I strongly suspect people spent less time alone in the past. (Note: The X-axis is age.) My theories: * Multitude of choices given to us by technology have led to fewer things we pay attention to in common with our friends and neighbors. Thus, fewer shared loci of interaction. Career specialization is another key contributing factor. * More recently, dopamine rush generated by e…
A gender breakdown for both single and married would also be useful. For marriages there should also be another dimension based on the health of the marriage. Recent literature suggests that men are lonelier than women which incites my curiosity on gender differences in this topic. I've been theorizing that if true, those men who fall further below the envelope of social interaction end up having greater difficulty i…
If you have any sources on men being lonelier, please share here and I'd be very grateful
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#30Alone and co-workers. Sad.
Do your co-workers count as friends? Then it's actually pretty good. If not - that's a change you can make without even changing your lifestyle.
Depends on the team, right? It was a major quality of life bump for me when I recently transferred to a team with whose members I enjoy spending time.