Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
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Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
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#3Sometimes I feel like social media actually makes us more lonely and disconnected from others.
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#4> I don’t believe so, nor do I believe it helps anyone to describe it that way.
^The op-ed writer's buried lede.
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#5Sometimes I feel like social media actually makes us more lonely and disconnected from others.
You're not alone. In that thought.
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#6> what Prime Minister Theresa May called the “sad reality of modern life.”
That reality is mostly for men as it’s becoming increasingly harder for men to find a partner, or even friends for that matter. The women I know have to turn off their dating apps as a result of getting so many matches. The men I know rarely get a match, and these are men who are normal looking with high paying tech jobs.
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#7If anything the opposite is true: severe lack of alone-time. I'm surrounded by humans all the time, even in your time alone you can't get away from people due to IM, social media, etc.
I try to minimise the amount of social activity as much as possible, but I'm still getting overloaded and am slowly going crazy.
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#8If anything the opposite is true: severe lack of alone-time. I'm surrounded by humans all the time, even in your time alone you can't get away from people due to IM, social media, etc. I try to minimise the amount of social activity as much as possible, but I'm still getting overloaded and am slowly going crazy.
This is exactly how you don't do science!
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#9Loneliness might be the logical conclusion to a society going more and more towards metrics. Likes, dislikes, upvotes, downvotes. Dissenters are punished, perfection is idolized.
Research is pretty conclusive that to have tight friendships you need vulnerability to some degree, yet if people want perfection that implies invulnerability. If you accept these premises to be true, then it seems loneliness is inevitable.
As an aside, I also think income inequality might lead to more loneliness.
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#10If anything the opposite is true: severe lack of alone-time. I'm surrounded by humans all the time, even in your time alone you can't get away from people due to IM, social media, etc. I try to minimise the amount of social activity as much as possible, but I'm still getting overloaded and am slowly going crazy.
Same for me. I used to work from home and did a lot of stuff after work together with people. Now I am working at an open office and due to noise and constantly interacting with people I am way too exhausted in the evening to do anything. I just want to be alone in peace. The result is that my social life has almost stopped and I feel quite lonely.