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In reply to the discussion: Americans are the loneliest, most isolated people [View all]yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)When I was in High school I had many good friends. In college I had friends but not as many, when I got a job my amount of friends went down, because we were not supposed to have friends there, we were supposed to work. As time has gone by my high school friends have all gone, off to college or other places..some went into the military, others moved to other states.. in College.. many graduated and went back home to other states, or maybe moved far away or never stayed .. as time grows I have lost more and more friends. I can imagine that those people who retire from work will lose friends as well.
Now there is this new thing, called the "Internet" and social networks. If you have twitter or Facebook sometimes you can reconnect to old friends ..or just find new ones. The other thing is if you hang out on a website like this you meet new people...on line.. but not in your life. If you go to chat websites, you can meet many more people... but most people use anonymous nick names or never use their real names...so they just become that name.. and people sometimes forget there is a real person behind "SnowbunnyUSA!".
Some people who are in poverty don't have the luxury of having access to the internet, so if people needed to get food because they are out, they have to go without because there is no one to contact them. They may not even have a telephone or can afford one. In California you can have a land line and for people who are in a "poor" bracket can get a low cost landline.
Still many people don't know about social services and how to get food if they are hungry. They don't know about places that have pantries and food donations.. or they are too proud to use them, because they always think there are people who are worse off than them..and refuse to get food even though they badly need it.