Are We Trading Convenience for Connection?
If you’re someone who rejoices at self-serve checkouts, automated banking, or online shopping—and I’ll admit, I tick two out of three of these boxes—have you ever stopped to think about how taxing these shifts might be on the incidental social interactions we have with others? Recently, while reading Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection—And Why We All Need More, I realised just how much these incidental social opportunities are diminishing. Life gets busy, and we favour convenience and simplicity to make our hectic lives more manageable. But at what cost to our social habits? And what do we now need to do to strengthen them? ….[READ]
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