Loneliness: Connecting to Disconnect

In a world more connected than ever before, why are we still so lonely and disconnected? What are we doing wrong?

A 2019 study conducted by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health tried to make the leap from correlation to cause by taking into account the pre-existing mental health problems of participants in the year before their research. They followed 6,000 kids aged between twelve and fifteen and found that those who used social media for over three hour…