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Screen-made virgins, or how to ruin your life without feeling a thing
A forum post describes young people unable to form relationships because they live glued to screens. With no data to back it up, it is an opinion about digital loneliness.
The post claims that some young people build their emotional misfortune on screens and on the lack of physical affection. It is a personal opinion, with no figures or studies to support it.
## A complaint typed out at the mercy of autocorrect
The text opens with a fight against the phone's autocorrect and goes on with a string of reproaches. It talks about "proto-virgins" and about people who, according to the writer, have never known physical contact. The underlying idea is that the screen replaces the body and that this leaves people without the tools to relate to others.
There is no data behind any of it. No survey, no study, no date. It is an opinion written in anger and in a hurry, and it should be read as such: as a vent, not a diagnosis.
## Loneliness is not measured in screens
That screens take up hours of daily life is a verifiable fact. That this alone explains the lack of a partner or of affection is another matter. Loneliness has many causes: job insecurity, working hours, mobility, breakups, mental health. Reducing it all to a mobile phone is convenient and false.
The post also takes aim at those who, it claims, received no love at home and pay for it later. That is a psychological hypothesis with no basis. Nobody should take that portrait as a description of an entire group.
## Contempt as an argument
There is a dismissive tone towards women and towards men who do not fit certain moulds. That contempt explains nothing; it only points fingers. And pointing is not analysing.
If anyone recognises that isolation in their own life, the useful thing is to talk to a mental health professional, not to look for culprits in a screen.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication.
Read the full discussion (2 replies).
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