Originally Posted by
Makar
We used to socialise better in the past - now we do it on places like this. Pubs were wonderful places to meet, chat, play pool and darts... difficult to find a good pub like that now. People drink at home much more, play Doom against someone in Taiwan and avoid meeting people up town by getting the supermarket to drop thus avoiding the shop.
'Better' is very subjective. Technology is just offering us more choices to spend our time. How that works in the pursuit of happiness is highly debatable.