beyond stats

i was checking a recent report from the italian national statistic agency about families and other social trends in my country. Firstly i find hard to generalize and to abstract conclusion after some stats, but that’s my fault, anyway some consideration can be drawn and to be very short it has to do with a life more individually focused, less family oriented and maybe more lonely. So we know (starting from this sample of 58.000 people) that singles count up to 23% of population , taking into account the progressive extension of life 61,7% of the singles are over 60 yo. But families take time to build considering that youngsters leave the family home quite late (reason being cost of living, lenght of university studies etc.). the portrait is of a nation that’s growing old and with families surely different and less present that in the generation of our parents. The aspects of being single are many, in some way even people with a good job move, relocate and maybe dedicate much time to work than to family, at this point question that i’m posing myself is about the quality of the social network we’re in.

I see something like if our age is on the spell of a “loosely coupled” social network, surely we’ve technology that allow us to be in touch with almost everybody on the world and exchange ideas and connect into communities with people sharing our own interests, they’re real, they can give us something useful but they’re not here, with you in the same moment. I’m realizing that putting down this topic is even harder than what i was expecting, too much for this post and maybe i’ll get deeper in another occasion, just wanted to stop and think about what’s the society we live in, and to a closer look how we , you , real persons relate to it and what’d be done to make our experience richer and shareable with others.