What Lonely Men Won't Say Online (Or In-Person)

I don’t care how easy social media makes it to keep in touch. A few years ago, I wanted to delete it all—even if it meant losing touch with friends I’d known my whole life. Walk away from likes, comments, shares. Every profile, gone. Just disappear from the internet entirely and spend my time with the people I cared about instead of scrolling past them. Then I’d focus on in-person connection instead of connection requests.

But everyone uses social media. It gives us the ability to keep up with lifelong friends and family. We get to see people we don’t run into on a daily basis. We feel included in their lives, and believe them to be part of our own, because we skim through their posts. But for as much time as we spend on those damn platforms, are we really all that social?

I’m not convinced...

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onward.

-dmac