Re:Americans are choosing to be alone, but we should reverse...
by UweSchmidt on Sunday November 27, 2022 @06:28AM
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American individualism has existed for a long time, but trends continue and accelerate. Recent trends to increase individualism:
- Influencers, streamers introduced and established 1-n relationships in society, somewhat replacing more organic 1-1 connections. People start mapping classic relationship-type emotions on what Onlyfans gives them.
- High quality smart phone cameras brought the selfie, the concept of frequently broadcasting a high quality picture of myself, rather than a more natural slice of life moment, picture of a group doing something, relying on another person to be available and willing to make a photo.
- continuing decline of newspapers and other general-audience media, replaced by chose-your-own-bubble media
- online dating becoming widespread, making people more selective, less patient to deal with random encounters; more random rejection, ghosting.
- Influencers, streamers introduced and established 1-n relationships in society, somewhat replacing more organic 1-1 connections. People start mapping classic relationship-type emotions on what Onlyfans gives them.
- High quality smart phone cameras brought the selfie, the concept of frequently broadcasting a high quality picture of myself, rather than a more natural slice of life moment, picture of a group doing something, relying on another person to be available and willing to make a photo.
- continuing decline of newspapers and other general-audience media, replaced by chose-your-own-bubble media
- online dating becoming widespread, making people more selective, less patient to deal with random encounters; more random rejection, ghosting.
- the pandemic
- homeoffice