How we use technology to fill the void of loneliness

 It's so weird, and kinda sad in a way, how listening to Podcast, even audiobooks, can fill up an empty void, thus making you feel less alone, by hearing other people talk, it also helps you get your mind off yourself, or from overthinking about things. Especially for people who work from home, or have kids, or are housewives, or as some call its homemakers, when your alone in the house all day, your mind is bound to wonder, and overthink about a thousand different things.

So, you start searching for things to occupy your mind, listening to music, online courses, lectures, Podcasts, basically anything you can think of, in order for your mind to stop overthinking, for you to not feel so alone, and isolated. You might even watch gameplay video's or play a videogame, or sit back and read a book, but despite all of that, it doesn't replace being around actual people, laughing, and joking around, and talking about mundane things from time to time. 

Podcast and audiobooks are the closets things you possibly can find, to feeling like your around other people, and aren't alone, by listening to other people talk about things that you relate too, it helps you feel less lonely. That's why eventually, most people either work, or go to college, even if it's part time, or if not that, then hanging out with friends on the weekend, people need social interaction, and friendship, yes friendship, not just romantic, but casual friendship is just as important. 

Maybe it's just me, but I honestly think and feel that there's still a lot of unsaid things that people just don't talk about, and sadly it feels like it just gets worse, the older you get. You don't realize it or know it when your 18 or even 24, but slowly when you're nearing the end of your 20's and nearing your 30's you can just feel a shift, and I wouldn't say that it even is a nice feeling at all. When you actually stop and look around at people who are 30 years old and beyond, you can just tell, that most people by that age, just want to be left alone, they just want to go to work, go home, rest, go to bed, repeat. So even though people need friendship, by the time you're in your 30's, you can tell that by then, most people are just "done", so to speak, and want to be left alone, no drama, no talking, nothing basically. If you think about it, that's pretty said, when you actually realize how common it actually is, for a long time, I thought it was just people who were 70-90 years old, but no, it literally starts in your 30's. 

I don't know if it's biology, or from society, but I honestly didn't think or know that this would happen, or how common it is, the older you get, the harder it is to make new friends, let alone, keep in touch with them, or making plans to hang out, and then usually at the last minute either you or the other person bails out, and cancels the plans at the last minute. Then after so many tries, you slowly give up hanging out with the person, and then pull back, talking, messaging the person less and less. Then eventually, you see them, and end up just saying "hi" in passing, and that's it. Then eventually over time, you go and search for ways to fill the void, hence looking for audiobooks, Podcasts, music, movies, gameplays, basically anything you can think of, in order to keep your mind busy, and to make you feel less alone.