iPhones, hanging out less, rising Nones, few/no movements

Three articles speak to similar issues (and there are probably more):

… It’s obviously the phones. Magdalene Taylor

… Why Americans suddenly stopped hanging out. Atlantic

… The data is clear: people are having less sex. (It’s obviously the phones.) Ryan Burge

While the first and the last article start out with a discussion of Americans having less sex, both migrate (Taylor very rapidly, Burge in the last few paragraphs) into a further look at the impact of phones on sex, but also on socialization, friendships, community, etc.

There is an obvious interseection between this and the rise of the nones:

• Taylor suggests that socialization dropped dramatically after the introduction of the iPhone in 2008.

• The rise of the nones accelerated in 2007 (see both Pew and Gallup), rising from 16% to nearly 30% by 2023.

But, further: disciple-making movements have been around to some extent since the 1990s, but really began advancing in the 2010s, especially 2015 and after. But there has been noticeably a lack of movements in the West. So, a question I’m musing on: is their a correlation between the rise of the phones, the rise of the nones, the fall of socialization, and the lack of movements in the West (especially in America, especially when movements basically depend on socialization)?

Related:

Soundscape goes private: How AI is shaping the music listening habits of GenZ. Conversation … “what happens when young people don’t know what their peers are listening to?

What churches offer that “nones” still long for: community. NYT

A loneliness epidemic? How marriage, religion, mobility explain the generation gap in loneliness. AEI