the oldest of Gen-Z are still in their 20’s, and perhaps at the age where the desire to socialise in person is strongest.
I mean, I’d argue you yourself are guilty of what we’re accusing the article of doing here.
It’s not that older people don’t want to socialize in person with each other anymore, it’s more that after graduating high school, you’re separated from your high school friends by where you go to college, then after college, you’re further separated by where you are able to get a job, meaning “adults” don’t really have as many choices about “socializing in person” simply because every friend of theirs has been taken far, far away from them based on economic circumstances.
Source: In my 40’s and my friend group has been splintered all over the planet since I was in my mid-twenties. Kind of lead to having to be okay with keeping in touch over the internet.
We can stop attributing such things as a “choice.” Adults want just as much in-person socializing time with their friends and family, often they just simply don’t have access to it. *shrugs