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According to this month's Atlantic magazine, new research suggests that we've never been lonelier and that the rise in loneliness across the western world is a result of our adoption of digital social tools like Facebook.According to this month's Atlantic magazine, new research suggests that we've never been lonelier and that the rise in loneliness across the western world is a result of our adoption of digital social tools like Facebook.
In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are. [...] The question of the future is this: Is Facebook part of the separating or part of the congregating; is it a huddling-together for warmth or a shuffling-away in pain?In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: the more connected we become, the lonelier we are. [...] The question of the future is this: Is Facebook part of the separating or part of the congregating; is it a huddling-together for warmth or a shuffling-away in pain?
Tell us about your experience: do you think Facebook is interfering with your real friendships? When you read a status update from one of your friends, do you feel connected to them, or more distant? Do you use Facebook as a tool to actively keep in touch with family and friends, or do you watch (lurk) from afar?Tell us about your experience: do you think Facebook is interfering with your real friendships? When you read a status update from one of your friends, do you feel connected to them, or more distant? Do you use Facebook as a tool to actively keep in touch with family and friends, or do you watch (lurk) from afar?
As part of our people's panel, we want your perspective.As part of our people's panel, we want your perspective.
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