Most People Identify as Huggers, Rarely Hug
(WorldNews Health)

`I think that-and I should be careful about how I say this, but-I do think using Facebook sometimes feels like using heroin,` Vivek Murthy, the recent-past U.S. Surgeon General, said yesterday. The comment came at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in a room with green tape on the floor in the shape of a rectangular box, along with about 100 people who came to participate in a sort of experiment about social isolation and ideological polarization. The session was called `Creating Connections in a Divided World.` At the start, Murthy noted that Americans report being twice as lonely today as compared to the 1980s, and that this is a serious health concern. The question before us was, why the...