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View submission: About loneliness and how our interactions are reducing day by day
Loneliness is not the same as unhappiness. There's ample research that social media use makes people unhappy through the comparison mechanism that you mention, but the results are more mixed on whether it makes people specifically *lonely*. For example, a 2016 study found that mobile phone time contributed to loneliness less than TV watching time[1] and a 2017 study found that using social media to talk about TV shows made people feel less lonely than watching TV alone[2].
2: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15205436.2017.1350715
There's nothing here!