I'm probably not far from you in age, and by my late 20's it started getting difficult to work w/ people who were only a few years younger than me. Having their faces stuck on their phones, wasting time on social media (Facebook at the time), and being unavailable for any out-of-office meetings or events. Just the inability to maintain eye-contact created awkwardness.Rendered Fat said:
I'm in my 40's, but employ over thirty 20-somethings (all of them progressive liberals as I live in Austin). There is virtually no face to face communication. Literally EVERY communication is done through text or social media (this is true for everyone, not just those attracted to one another). Nobody goes out to lunch together anymore. They all text a single person what they want to eat that day and have grub hub deliver it. Every single day (and this was going on long before Covid). When we try to do happy hours, everyone is sitting face down looking at their phone. The young guys aren't even trying to get laid.
In their defense, I don't see how I would have been any different had I had access to free, unending porn as a young man. My experiences are completely anecdotal, but I would bet everything I have that porn has negatively affected our young society more than anything else. It's absolutely detrimental. I have no way to evidence this, but again, I would bet everything I own, that constant subjection to porn has caused young men to look at females as nothing more than an end to their physical desires. It comes across blatantly so in every day interactions.
I don't know when the exact change was, but we might have been the last ones to go through college and early work years without personalized social media, and thinking cellphones were for emergencies.
One of my friends in psychology is always mentioning studies showing that 20-somethings today go out less and have less sex. I know they were making the service industry less predictable even before the China virus shutdowns.
