{"id":923323,"date":"2026-07-29T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/americans-of-all-ages-are-spending-less-time-socializing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:12:40","slug":"americans-of-all-ages-are-spending-less-time-socializing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/americans-of-all-ages-are-spending-less-time-socializing\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans of all ages are spending less time socializing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart: Danielle Alberti\/AxiosAmericans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago \u2014 and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios&#8217; Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data.Why it matters: It&#8217;s a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has implications for everything from what we believe to how long we live.By the numbers: 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.Between the lines: Sociologists and psychologists point to several trends driving this phenomenon&#8230; Erica Pandey<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/05\/americans-socializing-decline\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart: Danielle Alberti\/AxiosAmericans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago \u2014 and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios&#8217; Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data.Why it matters: It&#8217;s a fundamental shift in the way we live our lives that has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2623,2510],"tags":[5464,12688],"class_list":["post-923323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-americans","category-spending","tag-americans","tag-spending"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}