Christopher Mims argues that the rapid adoption of Facebook hasn’t made us lonely, but that social networking is a reaction to much larger social forces. So what’s causing American’s to be lonely? You’ll have to read Mims’s piece to find out. As usual, it’s a sharp piece of writing.
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