“Loneliness is often seen as an issue affecting older people, but we found its association with poorer health-related quality of life was greatest among young adults ages 15–24,” Rizal said.
"Loneliness is subjective and reflects how satisfied we feel with our social relationships, whereas social isolation is about objectively having fewer relationships and less frequent social contact.
"You can be surrounded by people and still feel deeply lonely, just as someone with relatively few social connections may not necessarily feel lonely.
Wait this means it was definitely a good idea to ban youth from social media right? This will make them feel less isolated from the communities they are stuck growing up in right? Right?..
…or maybe doing that was obviously attempted mass manslaughter from the beginning and people should be held accountable for that?
Lets not be extremist and emotional about this though, we will have plenty of time to do with those emotions later when we are yet again trapped in a social environment we have to entirely mask in!
yes, just like it is with smoking, gambling, alcohol (I’d argue religion as well) and on and on.
the main problem with social isolation is cars. Need one to do any fucking thing in cities and sonlittke infrastructure fir alternates and then kids hanging around together is seen as bad, so they have “move on” laws. A good start would be a goal of removing 80% of cars from cities and ban dropping kids if at school in a car
Yeah I agree I grew up on the side of basically a highway, guess how much I loved that.