60% of U.S. adults reported that societal division is a significant source of stress in their lives, 54% said they felt isolated, left out (50%) or lack companionship (50%) often or some of the time.
I don’t see any fixes on the horizon. The internet connected us but instead of creating empathy it just exposed how much we disagree with half the country.
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness
@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo It wasn't supposed to connect us with our shithead neighbors we were already too connected with. It was supposed to connect us with people on the other side of the world they were telling us to hate. That's what it did, and that's what companies like Facebook and Google have done their best to suppress by artificially limiting reach to same language and geographic bubbles.
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