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But solitude and loneliness are not one and the same. “It is actually a very healthy emotional response to feel some loneliness,” the NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg told me. “That cue is the thing that pushes you off the couch and into face-to-face interaction.” The real problem here, the nature of America’s social crisis, is that most Americans d... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Rather, the prospect of being doomed to loneliness essentially froze and dulled them. And that’s exactly what loneliness does. According to Joiner, loneliness is the “experience of unwanted solitude and disconnection.”5 Further, loneliness has two facets: social isolation and emotional isolation, with emotional loneliness being the symptom of the r
... See moreJon Tyson • Fighting Shadows
One in which giving up a promotion to have free time for the people you love is wasted potential. In which mentioning you’re lonely is still taboo—despite 61 percent of Americans admitting to it behind closed doors.
Marisa G. Franco, PhD • Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
Some of the most valuable evidence comes in the form of detailed time-use records from the US and UK, which show a marked increase in time spent alone among teens and young adults over the past decade, but little to no change for older groups. Most impor-tantly, this diary data also captures how people are feeling over the course of their day as th... See more
Loneliness isn’t just personal. It’s institutional. It’s fiscal. It’s a bit engineered. It’s purposeful.
kyla scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
“The HHS came out with a report basically stating that there's an epidemic of loneliness and isolation happening among the younger generations because they have very much grown up on the Internet and now have a hard time meeting other people in person and connecting. And I think we're kind of an [unintentional] solution to that problem,”