Loneliness

Where do you find lonely people the most? Big Cities! It is ironic that you have a lot of lonely people where you have a large number of people living relatively in very close proximity. In big cities, even though people are surrounded and live with a large number of people close by they don't interact with strangers that they are surrounded with. Friends and families they have are also not available due to work or just because they are into their busy lives which doesn't give room for social engagement as much. Social media doesn't make it any better for lonely people either. Social media is meant to make people be with people without being physically being together but it mostly works to the contrary. The fact is that it makes people anti-social by limiting real interaction and conversations between people on a normal day to day activities sans smartphones and computers. Old and retired people are more prone to this epidemic.  They no longer have the daily interactions that they had with co-workers or the distraction of a busy work schedule and they don't have any extended family networks like in the old day. They are left to age in lonely places without any emotional and social support which leads to a life of miserable loneliness which affects their mental and emotional health greatly.