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They recruited 2753 Facebook users in the US, and randomly selected half of them to stop using Facebook for four weeks. The psychologists Matthew Clark, Natalie Loxton, and Stephanie Tobin replicated this analysis, using the same survey, but focusing on all age groups, not only high-school seniors. Social connections – including contact with friends and family – are important for our health and emotional well-being. This begs two questions: (i) Is it true that younger people are lonelier, and (ii) does this show that loneliness is increasing? Social networks are diverse and complex, so talking about “social connectedness” is actually a simplification that deserves some discussion.

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In the chart here I’ve put together estimates on self-reported feelings of loneliness from various sources. To be more precise, Bailey and co-authors find that the effect of doubling social connectedness on the probability of citation remains significant and large, at 4. This is true, even after accounting for the patents’ technology class and geographic distance between counties.In the fourth wave (1999-2004) the WVS asked respondents hundreds of questions about their lives, including whether they were part of social or religious groups, how often they spent time with friends, and whether they felt happy with their life. Incomes and freedom of choice are not the only drivers of the ‘rise of living alone’; but it would be remiss to ignore they do contribute to this trend.

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In this article we explore data on loneliness and social connections across countries and over time, and review available evidence on how and why social connections and loneliness affect our health and emotional welfare, as well as our material well-being. Data for Spain is shown by default, but you can explore data for different countries using the option ‘Change country’. Smaller countries tend to have an advantage when increasing internet speed, as making the necessary infrastructure upgrades is a slower and more daunting task in larger countries (though China's mobile networks seem to be covering the country's massive area quite well).In England, the Office for National Statistics conducts the Community Life Survey, in which they ask people how often they feel lonely. Yes, there is evidence suggesting a causal negative effect, but the size of these causal effects is heterogeneous and much, much smaller than the news headlines suggest.

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When adjusting for these factors, they found that loneliness continued declining into ‘oldest old age’. It is especially interesting to observe the size and magnitude of the Internet through maps like the submarine cables’ map, which shows the submarine cables which carry most of the Internet’s global traffic, or the map which shows the most used mobile phones over different places in the world, based on 280 million tweets posted from mobile phones. But contrary to what many believe, this does not translate into higher levels of self-reported loneliness. Successfully striving for happiness: Socially engaged pursuits predict increases in life satisfaction.They found that after age 50 – which is the earliest age of participants in their study – loneliness tended to decrease, until about 75, after which it began to increase again. London’s Heathrow Airport has retained its position as the world’s most internationally connected airport, offering some 66,000 possible international connections between inbound and outbound flights within a six-hour window on its busiest day in 2018.

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Going forward, the conversation in policy and the news should be much more about strategies to promote positive content and interactions, than about one-size-fits-all restrictions on social media ‘screen time’. Indeed, there’s evidence of social regulation of gene expression in humans: studies suggest perceived loneliness can switch on/off genes that regulate our immune systems, and it is this what then affects the health of humans, or other animals that evolved with similar defence mechanisms.When they add controls for cross-country differences on socioeconomic indicators (income, education, ethnicity, etc.