Lonely people being “cut off” from social networks
One finding from the “induction” (OK, the “contagion”) study was that lonely and socially isolated people might find themselves ostracized, as the social network tries to protect itself from the spread of loneliness.
Now, this is not good news for someone who’s about to publish a first-person memoir of loneliness. Will I be ostracized? Will I be seen as a threat to the social fabric? Little me?
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I haven’t read your book yet, but I will pick it up as soon as I can.
Personally I have been ostersized for feeling lonely. Altough the “doctors” diagnosed me with depression, I now know it is loneliness, even though I am “married”. I made the mistake of telling my wife and friends I felt depressed and the whole thing blew up in my face. I lost a very close friend that I looked to for support and my wife assumed something was going on when I became depressed about it.
I’ve come to accept my condition, altough I’m not happy about it. I’m optomistic that your book may help me to better understand it.
I recall that study on social networks and the impact of outcasts. Yes, there seemed to be a kernel of truth to it.
C