Going out alone is a good chance to meet people, so I guess that’s a silver lining?

It could be increasing loneliness (sad) or it could be that people are feeling more empowered to do things alone (maybe not sad)

Something about this is off. I cannot pinpoint it and it may just be my LLM paranoia, but I don’t trust search engines in the age of LLM-infused SEO.

On the other hand, the general trend towards atomisation and isolation has been stewing elsewhere as well already.