Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago
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It's a fundamental shift in the way Axios live Axios’s lives that has implications for everything from what Axios believe to how long Axios live.
Key facts
- Average time spent socializing per day has fallen from 45 to 35 minutes over the last 20 years
- Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago, and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data
- Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social Century" in the Atlantic last year
- Also contributing to the trend is the decline of gathering spaces, Axios' Avery Lotz writes
Summary
Americans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago, and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data. Average time spent socializing per day has fallen from 45 to 35 minutes over the last 20 years. The decline is steepest among young people: 15- to 24-year-olds went from spending an hour a day hanging out with others to 35 minutes. Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon, which Substack writer Derek Thompson dubbed "The Anti-Social Century" in the Atlantic last year.