Are they considering things like Discord as "alone" or "hanging out"? Because I hang out with friends every night. Virtually. So does my teen son. He does good in school and is well-adjusted. This article seems a bit biased and old-fashioned.

Yeah it's hard to explain this to my therapist.

Maybe it why you need a therapist?

No, and there was no need to be an asshole about it. It's like talking about your human childhood and adolescence to an alien therapist. I hope you see what I'm getting at.

My teenage son hangs out with his friends every night. On discord and phone, playing shared games.

When I was growing up at his age, other than at school, I maybe saw my friends once or twice a week at most.

Your _real_ life is a database entry in a corporate s/w platform...

Migrating into the digital world, stuck in the uncanny valley of incomplete social contact. We need to climb out one way or the other, either retreat to analogue social interaction, or make the digital kind as effective at promoting mental health. Or be the cow that starves half way between two haystacks.

Annoyingly ambiguous title; guess they want you to read the article to find out if hanging out is harmful, or hanging out less is.

hanging out has become expensive...

100% agree with this Programmers need to start enjoying life a little bit

Finiancial Times is concerned about the economic impact on the shareholders of the "hanging out" industry...