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http://www.psycholog...-make-us-lonely

http://www.theatlant...us-lonely/8930/

Does Facebook Make The Us Lonely?

In this month’s Atlantic, Stephen Marche offers a detailed examination of the current state of social life in America. Encompassing where we live to how we live and who we live with while taking a backward glance at history along with a critical eye toward the present, Marche aims to show how American society is breaking down. According to Marche, loneliness is the result of that breakdown.

Marche asks a lot of great questions about Facebook’s role in creating, or at least contributing to, the loneliness epidemic in America.

Pointing out that our “web of connections” has “grown broader but shallower,” Marche notes that we are more isolated than ever before, and also more accessible than ever imagined.

At the same time, “loneliness and being alone are not the same thing, but both are on the rise. We meet fewer people. We gather less. And when we gather, our bonds are less meaningful and less easy.”

(continued, not on facebook these days so I've no idea what the current state of the global narcissist collective is?)

[Wolfwoman]

i actually deleted my facebook because it was making me feel bad as i had hardly anyone on my friends list and i could see that the people that i used to hang around with including some of my exes were on other peoples and wouldnt add me and then you see the exciting things that other people are doing and it just makes you feel bad. i prefer not to know what my exes are doing i like to think of my life as like a story and that they arent in the story anymore, not that they are with someone else having the time of their lives.

[mias]

Yep. I haven't a clue either. I only come onto this forum. I have fb but can't be faddled to bother with it. I occasionally send a message to family/friends or get one but saying that, I would prefer to txt them. As for lonely, we can all feel lonely in a crowded room if there is no one we feel is absolutely there with us/for us. Don't we all like to feel cared for and if lucky enough,loved. Even if someone cares online it cannot be the same as them being really there with them BUT it is better than nothing and no one.

[Defiant_fighter]

mias, on 03 May 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

Yep. I haven't a clue either. I only come onto this forum. I have fb but can't be faddled to bother with it. I occasionally send a message to family/friends or get one but saying that, I would prefer to txt them. As for lonely, we can all feel lonely in a crowded room if there is no one we feel is absolutely there with us/for us. Don't we all like to feel cared for and if lucky enough,loved. Even if someone cares online it cannot be the same as them being really there with them BUT it is better than nothing and no one.

yeah, i do feel lonely too at times and if you dont have company there by your side it gets very sad and not nice.yeah mias about love i just try not to think of it as it tears me up now, but there you go x *sighs*

[mias]

I always think that friendship and or love turns up when you least ecpect it. And is way more likely to happen when you are not looking.

[Can't be bothered]

I am on Facebook and have been for some time, I have some really good 'friends' on there. There have been times when I have found some real bloody idiots on there, some people have some real sick minds, and they say I'm a danger to people, I am a big softy compared to some. Another thing I doubt I would be alive today if it hadn't been for Facebook, anyway I think Facebook can be great if used correctly and you watch for the idiots, I think it's great.

[mias]

Sounds pretty similar to the 'real world' then to me.


Hi Rick.

[Wolfwoman]

mias, on 03 May 2012 - 05:22 PM, said:

I always think that friendship and or love turns up when you least ecpect it. And is way more likely to happen when you are not looking.

that is so true i was just walking around the towm the other day and i got served by the most gorgeous man i had ever seen at the checkouts i actually managed to have a conversation with him and he did talk back but dont think he would be interested in me in that way. i have only seen him in the distance since this so havent been able to talk to him again. but it just shows you can meet someone anywhere sometimes the mundane becomes the extrodinoary.

[mias]

That is so nice Wolf, I hope you get to chat with him again.
We should start a "most romantic thing" thread, just for fun.

[manic666]

Im your man girls look no further

[mias]

We know you are Manic. A knight in shining armour (But what others don't know that we do is that you wear your mankini underneath)



Think I have gone a bit off topic. Sorry peeps.