Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual

Re:Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual by aaron695 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @09:33PM (#11844117)

> The very fact that people from around the world can meet so easily virtually today is in itself a value regardless of whether it's better to meet in person.

So the standard reply to this is because we are fine tuning our meetups we are missing out on serendipity.

Travelers stay in touch with home so much they don't need to meet people.

We are connected on the bus and at a restaurant such that we are not pushed to meet people.

Then when we go to the fine matched event there is too much pressure to make friends.

I would say I'm the same, I'd need harder evidence that we are not getting lonelier.

Without a doubt we are changing, so it is troubling we don't know for sure if it's better or worse, I doubt such a big change is neutral.

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Re:Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual by ThomPete on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:49PM (#11844343)

Serendipity happens online all the time.

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Re:Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual by nnd on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:21PM (#11844453)

For example?

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Re:Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual by ThomPete on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:44AM (#11845566)

People meet in World of Warcraft, the tons of online friends I have on Facebook or got from IRC, various forums. Some of them I have met.

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Re:Study: To Beat Loneliness, Visits Must Be Real, Not Virtual by jestar_jokin on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:30AM (#11844667)

Someone posts a video on YouTube about some niche work; the original creator of that work posts a comment on the work and adds a little anecdote. (The work could be a game, or movie, or piece of music, or programming language; anything, really.)

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