Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us? | Paul Daley

I am hanging on to a product that makes people I loathe more super-rich while they trash the world There is so much talk of all the lonely people in the world right now that the pervasive state of loneliness is being called an epidemic. I don’t think that is an overstatement. I see loneliness around me all of the time. Everywhere. Not just in the faces of rough sleepers who look up at passers-by in the hope of finding eye contact and a little empathy – but also in the faces of those who rush ...

By Paul Daley