These are somewhat orthoganal - young people are lonelier != everyone else has a fixed supply of friends and can never make more.
Nor does it change the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble and widening their horizons beyond "things that could conceivably further my career".
> the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble
I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend. OK, maybe just one.
Most of my friends would agree with me and with article author. One of them goes further and doesn't even have a smartphone.
IME techies very rarely have these concerns.
So I'm not sure who is in a tech bubble between me and all those people in this thread saying how the logic is illegitimate because the author doesn't go out (which I guess is a "fact" because they all know him personally lol)
> I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend.
Then you are not at all like the author, who is specifically decrying the loss of tech-related avenues to meet people, and calls them out as his only ways of meeting people.
You've done some sort of mental back-flip by this point in the thread, and are ignoring what the author wrote about themselves and how they meet people.
Nor does it change the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble and widening their horizons beyond "things that could conceivably further my career".