In the 1980s, urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined a term that would explain why humans have thrived for millennia: The Third Place. If the "First Place" is your home and the "Second Place" is your work, the Third Place is the anchor of your community. It’s the pub where everybody knows your name, the barbershop, the local library, or the crumbling park bench where the same three people feed birds every morning.
But in the last decade, the Third Place has started to vanish—and it’s changing the way our brains function.
I think few reasons why we lost that third place is because;
1)Technology:people nowadays because of technology rarely step out of their homes to either a pubhouse or a coffee shop whereas in the past people go to places like that to sit down and discuss about trending topics. Nowadays,with mobile phones people don't go out to a cofee shop to get newspapers and discuss because the news is now available on the go on their phones.
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