“Loneliness and being alone are not the same thing, but both are on the rise. 
We meet fewer people. We gather less. And when we gather, our bonds are less meaningful and less easy. 
The decrease in confidants—that is, in quality social connections—has been dramatic over the past 25 years. In 1985, only 10 percent of Americans said they had no one with whom to discuss important matters, and 15 percent said they had only one such good friend. By 2004, 25 percent had nobody to talk to, and 20 percent had only one confidant.
We are now in the middle of a long period of shuffling away. In his 2000 book Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam attributed the dramatic post-war decline of social capital—the strength and value of interpersonal networks—to numerous interconnected trends in American life: suburban sprawl, television’s dominance over culture, the self-absorption of the Baby Boomers, the disintegration of the traditional family. 

The trends he observed continued through the prosperity of the aughts, and have only become more pronounced with time: the rate of union membership declined in 2011, again; screen time rose; the Masons and the Elks continued their slide into irrelevance. 

We are lonely because we want to be lonely. We have made ourselves lonely.”

The question is this: Is Facebook part of the separating or part of the congregating; is it a huddling-together for warmth or a shuffling-away in pain?”

What influence do you think this trend will have on conducting business on the Social Media platforms in future?