That&#x27;s a huge claim. Do you have any anthropological or historical evidence to reference?<p>If you don&#x27;t care about your parents or your high school buddies, that&#x27;s not really an indictment of social life; maybe you just need new friends.<p>Even during the European enlightenment, companionship was hugely important to lots of thinkers. Some historians trace the whole era&#x27;s intellectual climate to the rise of social
coffee shops.<p>That&#x27;s not the same as playing cards with high school buddies but social life is vast and wide. This right here is social life, indeed you&#x27;re complaining about social media on a social media site.