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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by albertshin on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:34PM (#19973295)
Give Putnam's Bowling Alone a read if you haven't already
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by smacktoward on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:35PM (#19974001)
It's worth noting that Bowling Alone was published in 2000, and grew out of a magazine article Putnam wrote in 1995. So this is a problem that's been slowly growing for a long time now.
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Re:A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, researc... by sien on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:13PM (#19976108)
It would be interesting to see the impact of the internet on these kinds of things. With Meetup and Eventbrite and Facebook organisation of a lot of social things has become easier.

Hopefully some researchers are looking at this.

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