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>Research suggests that all this homebody chatter is not just for show: Young people really are more prone to staying in these days. One 2018 paper, published in the journal Joule, found that Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 spend a whopping 70% more time at home than the general US population. In another 2018 survey, conducted by the marketing research firm Mintel, 28% of millennials between 24 and 31 said that they preferred to drink at home because going out was too much effort, compared to just 15% of baby boomers who agreed with that statement.

>But it’s also true that all those Etsy t-shirts and introvert comics are part of a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon: The internet has given rise to a collective, public performance of solitude.

<wrap hi>Source: [[https://qz.com/quartzy/1748191/how-millennials-became-a-generation-of-homebodies/|Why millennials never want to leave their apartment anymore by Sarah Todd for Quartzy]] ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20250318172922/https://qz.com/quartzy/1748191/how-millennials-became-a-generation-of-homebodies|archive]]) / Noted: 2019 November 20 / Discuss: [[https://tozka.dreamwidth.org/35906.html|On Dreamwidth]]</wrap>