You’ve had a social day. Two hundred Facebook friends posted birthday messages, your video of Mr. Meow shredding the toilet paper stash got dozens of retweets, and all the compliments on your latest Instagram selfie have you strutting with an extra swagger. Still, you can’t help but notice an ache that can only be described […]
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As we practice social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness has become a pressing issue. But new science suggests we can fulfill our social needs through methods that don’t involve people. “People can feel connected through all sorts of means,” says one of study authors Elaine Paravati in a press release. The new study from
Growth of Social Media Interconnectivity Doesn’t Stop Rising Youth Loneliness Why was it, strangely, such a day of ‘relief’? Why God, oh God, was the very first public social media suicide, for me, such a day of happiness, liberation and relief, when for the rest of the country, it was one of utter despair and chaos
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