{"id":303290,"date":"2026-07-22T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:06:51","slug":"news-12-bronx-survey-americans-spend-less-time-socializing-than-they-did-a-decade-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303290\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Survey Americans Spend Less Time Socializing Than They Did A Decade Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New numbers show that people are hanging out less than ever before with others  &#8211; and that time spent socializing is now going toward screen time.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that in 2025, Americans spent 35 minutes a day socializing. A decade ago, people spent 41 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Meanwhile, a Gallup poll says teenagers spend nearly five hours a day on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;These younger generations are finding themselves looking to fulfill that need for connection and turning towards social media, which is giving them enough of a false sense of a connection or even distraction from the underlying feelings of loneliness, that they don&#8217;t ultimately hit rock bottom enough to reach out and find connection,&#8221; says Marisa Franco, a psychologist and author.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Franco says chronic loneliness is as toxic as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New numbers show that people are hanging out less than ever before with others &#8211; and that time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-303290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}