As pessoas também estão cada vez mais solitárias. O "Índice de Solidão dos Estados Unidos de 2018", da Cigna, descobriu que pouco menos da metade (46%) dos estadunidenses sempre ou às vezes se sentem sozinhos, com os mais altos níveis de solidão entre a Geração Z e os Millennials. A solidão "tem o mesmo impacto na mortalidade que fumar quinze cigar
... See moreLoneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face. ... See more
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong?
Americans today enjoy half as many picnics as we did two decades ago. We have one fewer dear friend in our circle of care than thirty years ago. Thirty-five to 40 percent of people report suffering from loneliness.