Over the past decade, the best research has suggested that no, technology and social media are not making us lonelier. As Stephen Marche put it in The Atlantic in 2012, “Using social media doesn’t create new social networks; it just transfers established networks from one platform to another.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut recently, people’s views of social media have grown a bit darker. View all New York Times newsletters. There are a thousand ways online to divert with a joke or a happy face emoticon. You can have a day of happy touch points without any of the scary revelations, or the boring, awkward or uncontrollable moments that constitute actual intimacy.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2016 07:18 UTC