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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Impact of Digital Media on Loneliness

In the age of technology and social media, despite improved internet connections and the availability of dating apps, loneliness is on the rise. Statistics reveal that a significant percentage of Americans feel lonely and eat their meals alone. The shift towards consuming digital media over spending real-life time with friends has accelerated loneliness. This constant engagement with digital media, rather than genuine social connections, is contributing to the crisis of loneliness in today's society.

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Speaker 2
It's interesting because in the age of the internet and the age of dating apps and all these other tools and technologies, even though we have better internet connections, the stats continue to show that we're getting lonely or in lonely-er. Which is the word you use central to your mission, the word loneliness. Fifty-two percent of Americans report to feeling lonely. Fifty-seven percent of Americans report to eating their meals alone, et cetera. So something's clearly failing, isn't it? Something's clearly not working in this pursuit of connection and social connection and social media, et cetera.
Speaker 1
Yeah, and I think, so loneliness has been a problem that I think has been creeping up on us for a while, but it's really started to accelerate in the last few years. And if you look at, you know, I've seen charts that show like time spent together in real life with friends and time spent consuming media, consuming like digital media on apps, and it's like over the last like 20 years, they've, one is almost completely displaced the other. We used to spend hours a day with friends in real life on average and make like having genuine connections seeing and being seen. And now people are virtually almost always consuming some form of digital media or they're working. So even when you're at the gym, you're probably like listening to, you know, a like whatever, like a music or a podcast or you are. I think I'm with that, Justin.
Speaker 2
I think I'm with that. Nothing wrong with that, isn't it? You're in a microscope. We're not designed to be deleted. It's fine
Speaker 1
because you're conscious. I mean, so I'm not saying all media consumption is bad. I'm saying that like when you are, but when you're pulled in all day and it's completely displaced, like you're no longer talking with friends because you're just like doom scrolling on social media platform, X, Y, or Z, you've really, we've really lost something and I think it's that, I think more than anything has led to this like crisis level acceleration in loneliness.

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