There’s a stark divide between the two youngest generations of adults and the two oldest in terms of loneliness and anxiety.
Younger Americans, particularly those in Gen Z, tend to describe themselves as feeling lonelier and more anxious about the future than their elders, according to findings in the new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll, powered by SurveyMonkey.
Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults under age 30 say they feel lonely or isolated from those around them all of the time or most of the time. Similarly, 26% of the next oldest generation, or those ages 30-44, say they feel lonely or isolated all or most of the time.
But only 15% of survey respondents who are members of Generation X, or those who are 45 to 64 years old, said they felt they were lonely or isolated most or all of the time, and only 8% of those ages 65 and older said the same. The overall results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, with a slightly higher margin of error (plus or minus 2.7 points) among the smaller Gen Z subsample.
What a weird study. I’d much rather see generational studies at comparable points in their lives- were millenials as anxious in their 20’s as the silent generation were in their 20’s?
I can guess that boomers aren’t super worried about the future, seeing as they have significantly less of it to worry about.
And as for not having any friends… that kind of morbidly self-corrects over time (and then just as morbidly spikes at the far end of life)
only 32% of those ages 65 and over said [they were worried about the future]
Wow, most people over 65 are fucking ignorant assholes
Or they just don’t care. Not a week passes without me doing some doomer mental math about how much “good time” I have left before global warming and/or war starts to truly affect the first world country I live in. Which I do realize is very egotistical, but I’m a pretty pessimistic person and sometimes, thinking shit has a chance to hit the fan just as I start getting old instead of a few years from now is the only thing keeping me sane (because I also believe society will go the “children of men” or “the road” route extremely quickly at this point). So if I had at most ~15 years of life expectancy left I wouldn’t worry much either to be honest…
That would make you an asshole who lacks empathy. If you only worry about yourself and not others after you die.
Yeah I still do, but some people truly don’t. The fuck can I do about it ?
Education and healthcare. We need to provide free and better education and mental health for all these ignorant and sick assholes
No need to worry about loneliness – Zuck is working on some really sophisticated chatbots for that. As for the future, I don’t think there’s much of it left to worry about at this point. ☀️
Hell yeah brother, now that’s some optimism I can get onboard with:
No worry about a future when there isn’t one, take that, time travelers! 😎
I wonder why.
dont post screenshots of headlines.
Try and stop me, knave.
