Nick Cotter // Wired, tired, and tedious to know.
Great...but, (as the comments also indicate) if you live in a stone built house (such as ours, dating from the 1850s), simply sealing up the joint will mean instant damp problems. I speak from experience...
The idea that loneliness spreads like a contagion was based on the observation that, over time, scores of loneliness seemed to spread to the edge of a network. The spread of loneliness was found to be stronger than the spread of perceived social connections. It was stronger for friends than family members, and stronger for women than for men.
The lonely are pushed to the edge of the social network. I suppose it's better than being screamed at freakishly by Body Snatched former compadres.
I would add the UK (for its own "Digital Econony Bill"), and possibly all the signatories to ACTA, to the list of "Enemies of the Internet".
A very handy, if pointless, guide.
