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Posts tagged ‘loneliness’

Those you have read – top 10 in 2010

When you first sit down to write a blog you hope people are going to want to read it – unless you plan it as a private journal where you can unburden yourself or have a rant at the world (OK so occasionally I have a rant too). So it’s great for me that so [...]

Money makes the pain go away

Literally. Researchers have discovered that money gives people inner strength and can reduce their emotional and physical pain. Even thinking about it works. We know swearing helps you withstand pain as does looking at attractive women but it also seems that having cash in hand  can have the same effect. Researchers at the University of [...]

So many “friends” yet still lonely? 

With “Quit Facebook Day” approaching (31 May 2010) many people are re-examining their relationship with the social networking site Facebook – the site that keeps on sharing. Or over-sharing according to Time Magazine this month (“Facebook – friends without borders”). Some time this month Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen – a bigger [...]

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