Even long-lost friends who reconnected virtually during the pandemic have lost interest in video chatting. As restrictions ease, many are quitting Zoom chats for talks in real life.
Have you dumped your Zoom group yet? If not, it’s probably only a matter of time.
Our virtual social lives are drying up. Zoom, Houseparty and other platforms that were a lifeline during the Covid-19 lockdowns now feel like a chore. Virtual gatherings are harder to schedule. The limitations are getting tougher to tolerate. Even long-lost friends who reconnected during the pandemic have lost interest in video chatting.
Zoom most certainly will continue as a workplace tool, but for socializing, “I think people will be ditching Zoom in droves,” predicts Richard Slatcher, a psychology professor at the University of Georgia. As the world opens up, virtual gatherings are proving no match for ones in real life. In an April survey of 2,000 American adults conducted a year ago by the Siena College Research Institute, 60% said they had used video chat to talk with friends and family during the prior week. In April 2021, the share had dropped to 36%, according to Jeffrey Hall, a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, who commissioned the two surveys.
“We should keep in touch with our close friends, our best friends from college and high school. It is good for us,” Dr. Hall says. But we don’t.
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