スマートフォンで SNS を開くことで、友人と常につながっている感覚をバーチャルに得ていることが、「おひとりさま」行動を加速させていることと考えられる。
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We have abandoned the idea, still popular in the 1990s, that – to put it in a somewhat sketchy way – Internet users spend their nights chatting with strangers over the Web, and thus they automatically neglect their friends and loved ones. This was known as the displacement hypothesis. Since the beginning of the 2000s we know that the actual social consequence of the Web isn’t social isolation, but rather a dramatic reconfiguration of the balance between strong and weak ties, between bonding and bridging.
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the interpersonal patterns associated with internet use are the continuations of a shift in the nature of personal networks that began well before the advent of the internet. This shift toward “networked individualism” involves the transition from spatially proximate and densely-knit communities in which people belong to more spatially dispersed and sparsely-knit personal networks in which people maneuver.
