Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930
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Social mediafrom Facebook to Twitterhave made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society.