We’ve never been more surrounded — or more alone.
Messages arrive instantly. Faces glow from screens. Voices exist everywhere except the room you’re in. Connection became constant, yet intimacy became rare.
This isn’t social anxiety.
It’s relational dilution.
When interaction is frictionless, it loses weight. Conversations skim surfaces. Presence is optional. People are available — but unreachable. Always on, never with.
Loneliness now hides in plain sight.
Inside group chats. Inside feeds. Inside rooms full of people staring elsewhere.
The problem isn’t technology itself.
It’s the replacement of shared experience with shared access.
A culture that confuses visibility with belonging will keep producing isolated people — no matter how connected they appear.
👉 Full article / source link: MIT Sloan Management Review — “Why Digital Connection Increases Loneliness”
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-digital-connection-can-increase-loneliness/
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