# Society, friendship and social isolation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026 "2019-11-26T20:39:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026/21 "2019-11-27T14:21:30Z")

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I’m alone but hardly lonely. For the most part, I find interacting with people to take too much effort. I am not a people person.

I will not be alone tomorrow. I’ll be at work as a store cashier, where I only have to interact with each person for maybe three minutes.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026/22 "2019-11-27T14:21:52Z")

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Have you read _Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community_ by Robert D. Putnam?

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**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026/23 "2019-11-27T16:20:02Z")

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> [@carrps](#):
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> There are some times when I spend a holiday alone because I can’t face the traffic.
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> Social media ain’t got nothing to do with it.

Its 8:15 am on Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving. Its already raining like hell. Im not leaving the apartment to bike to Ralphs much less battle the 405 to Orange County. I totally agree with you.

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**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026/24 "2019-11-27T17:21:24Z")

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The only person I ever feel like being with on Thanksgiving Day is my spouse. As for Xmas, I don’t celebrate that particular holiday (anymore). Nothing to do with religion, but I no longer have anything to do with my parents or my (adopted) sister and not buying anybody any gifts is my personal statement on consumerism and materialism in this country.

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