In the end we are still so lonley. . .

As the popularity of social networks continues to grow,Americans are growing more and more lonely.One can have 70 kabillion friends on facebook and still be one of the loneliest people in the world. In a General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago,it is reported that people feel as though they have fewer close friends in 2004 then 1985.
Faux friendships are easily made at the click of a button,'Accept', but neither neither individual really does anything to create a legitimate relationship. The definition of friend has become blurred over time,according to dictionary.com the first definition of friend is a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. A single click of the mouse does not create an automatically create an emotional bond that we need,as humans,to survive. People create these one-click friendships and they end up with all these people in their "Internet lives" but no one to share real life experiences with. Yeah the one-click friend could be quick and take no time out of our oh so busy lives but in turn we are starving ourselves from a basic need for survival, Socializing. As we continue to derive ways to undermine physical interaction,we fail to realize that these behaviors are detrimental to our health. In an article I read on IBN.com,entitled friends on Loneliness is equal to smoking,kills slowly, loneliness has been equated to obesity and smoking,in severity .
A study conducted by researchers at University of Chicago showed that people,who are lonely, were three times more likely to develop strokes and heart disease. Although it hasn't been loneliness and blood pressure have not been directly connected it has been proven that loneliness leads to stress and depression,which has a negative impact on one's wellbeing.
In a time when we probably need human interaction most,Americans are growing more and more independent from the emotional connections we need to be physically and mentally fit. Cyber space should not be the grounds for creating and maintianing any healthy relationship. People need to revert back to the traditional ways of building relationships. Organizations,Church,hell even the Super market are all places in which a friendship can be planted. People need disregard the "friends made simple" ways of the internet and seek real friends in a real world. It's not so difficult to say "hello" and who knows where that could take you. We should want something more than an one-click friend,our bodies and our sanity depend on it.