We're more connected online than ever, yet loneliness is rising. The speaker argues we've traded deep relationships for dopamine hits from likes and comments, leaving us feeling understood by no one despite having access to everyone.
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Look, I think that you, you talked about the dopamine hit. It's like we are looking for validation in some places. I, I think a lot about this concept of like the loneliness epidemic and you know, when you really unpack why we're lonely, like it doesn't make, I mean, it makes sense why we're lonely. I'm not gonna say that, but we are, we are more online than ever. We have access to more people than ever before, more information ever before, and more spaces really of people who essentially might have our similar interests or passions or demographic or preferences. We can find those spaces online. And I think that what we've lost in all of this is truly being understood. Because if you think about why people feel lonely, when they probably do have friends, they do have places to connect, it's because they don't feel really deeply understood.