Who Americans spend their time with, by age
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Who Americans spend their time with, by age
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Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#2What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here.
Are we "spending time" together right now?
I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental decline due to inactivity through aging, and I've gotten positive responses (e.g. "for people who can use the Internet to stay cognitively active, aging will be a more pleasant experience generally").
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#3What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here. Are we "spending time" together right now? I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental d…
No I don’t think it’s the same. We are spending some time here but the amount of interaction is very low.
I recently bought something from a whiskey group on FB. We spent about 30 minutes talking about whiskey after our transaction. It was probably more meaningful than a week of HN interactions.
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#4This data makes me sad just looking at the parents, children, and coworker lines. This isn't how it should be...
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#5What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here. Are we "spending time" together right now? I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental d…
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Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#6What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here. Are we "spending time" together right now? I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental d…
I don't think much true human connection is happening here -- in the sense of connections that are emotionally fulfilling and improve psychological well-being. It may work for some people but I guess for most people the monkey brain is too far from what we're doing right now.
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#7What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here. Are we "spending time" together right now? I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental d…
No I don’t think it’s the same. We are spending some time here but the amount of interaction is very low. I recently bought something from a whiskey group on FB. We spent about 30 minutes talking about whiskey after our transaction. It was probably more meaningful than a week of HN interactions.
Lost Connections is a fantastic book on this.
While it's definitely worth a read, the author's core argument is eroding community structures have led to an explosion in mental illness.
He has a very interesting tale of a man in a small village who is essentially supported by everyone else there and with that is helped
Compared to the typical Western solution assuming your poor or homeless neighbor is the responsibility of some outside entity.
Online interactions also have a tendency to be very impersonal , and very mean. I don't really use any social media aside from this ( although that will change when I start promoting my side project game, I'll never speak outside of just promoting the game or asking for community feedback).
I'm very much looking forward to a post-corona world, my hope would be that more people embrace this beautiful world of ours instead of arguing about which movie casted who on Reddit all day.
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#8This data makes me sad just looking at the parents, children, and coworker lines. This isn't how it should be...
When frequent contact with parents is stigmatized after certain age, which it is in USA, then old people get lonely as they age and their contact with children will go down ...
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#9This data makes me sad just looking at the parents, children, and coworker lines. This isn't how it should be...
>This isn't how it should be...
What makes you say that?
Re: Who Americans spend their time with, by age
#10What counts as "spending time"? I'm sure they define it somewhere in the article, but I wonder what percentage of the effects do I get to experience by commenting here. Are we "spending time" together right now? I ask because I've bugged a few healthcare professionals I randomly meet about how millennials (and younger) will age, and if their comfort with the connective nature of the Internet will help reduce mental d…
I don't think much true human connection is happening here -- in the sense of connections that are emotionally fulfilling and improve psychological well-being. It may work for some people but I guess for most people the monkey brain is too far from what we're doing right now.
I sort-of disagree. Maybe for just browsing hn in general you’re right. That changes when you engage in a conversation with someone on a thread.
also, i don’t really believe in the idea of the “monkey brain”. our brain is both “hardware” and “software”. The tooling we are using is an extension of our brain.