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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T22:37:10.000Z",
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  "textContent": "submitted by userreality to asklemmy\n15 points | 10 comments\n\n\nI genuinely don’t understand why society treats social interaction like it’s one of the most important things in life.\n\nIf someone spends a weekend alone, people assume they’re lonely. If someone has no interest in constant messaging, group chats, or hanging out every week, people think something must be wrong.\n\nMeanwhile, a lot of social interaction seems repetitive. The same conversations, the same small talk, the same routines repeated over and over.\n\nPeople talk about socialising as if it’s automatically meaningful, but for many interactions the main purpose seems to be avoiding boredom or avoiding being alone.\n\nIf somebody has no friends it’s often treated like a tragic disaster, but what if that’s actually what they prefer?\n\nMaybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see why being comfortable alone is viewed as strange while constantly needing people around is viewed as normal.",
  "title": "Is social interaction really all that?"
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