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THE NEED TO NEED

“Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “Web of connections had grown broader but shallower, as has happened for many of us.”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “We are living in an isolation that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors, and yet we have never been more accessible.”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “Over the past three decades, technology has delivered to us a world in which we need not be out of contact for a fraction of a moment.”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “In 2010, at a cost of $300 million, 800 miles of fiber-optic cable was laid between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange...”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “...to shave three milliseconds off trading times. Yet, within this world of instant and absolute communication, unbounded by limits of time or space,...”

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?. U. S. Magazine “...we suffer from unprecedented alienation. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier.”

The Guardian - 2010. Rabbi from South London. “One change I’d like to see in the coming year is a move away from social networking sites.”

The Guardian - 2010. South London. “The rise of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn et al. has been an important cultural shift of the last decade,...”

There is nothing wrong with that in principle,...” The Guardian - 2010. South London. “...with many of us now using the web to make ‘friends’ and meet possible partners. There is nothing wrong with that in principle,...”

The Guardian - 2010. South London. “...provided they realize that the internet, however much it has transformed our lives for the better, is no substitute for meeting people, getting out there and making friends...”

The Guardian - 2010. South London. “Those sites can only make initial connections; they cannot begin to develop the depth of real friendships, of real connectedness.”

Abraham Maslow “Love is as essential to the growth of a human being as is food. Sure, we need food, but we need love, not just to receive it but to give it as well.”

“Our friends may have a positive or negative influence on us “Our friends may have a positive or negative influence on us. Supportive friends build self-esteem and self-efficacy. Some friends subtly undermine and depreciate us.”

Family support

Research 1,434 fifth- and sixth-grade students from 24 elementary schools throughout the United States. Community

Wendell Berry “A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy.”

Wendell Berry “It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members—among them the need to need one another.”

‘It is not good that man should be alone’ Genesis 2:18, NKJV ‘It is not good that man should be alone’

Social wellbeing quality-of-life scale, had a 2,230 breast-cancer survivors Social wellbeing quality-of-life scale, had a 48 % reduction

Highest satisfaction with marriage and family had a 2,230 breast-cancer survivors Highest satisfaction with marriage and family had a 43 % risk reduction,

Favorable interpersonal relationships had a 35 % risk reduction 2,230 breast-cancer survivors Favorable interpersonal relationships had a 35 % risk reduction

Very important part of our lives

“Doing good is a work that benefits both giver and receiver” Testimonies for the Church, Vol . 2, page 534. E. G. White “Doing good is a work that benefits both giver and receiver”

Acts 20:35, NKJV I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak....

Acts 20:35, NKJV ...And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive’.

1990s - Heart attack & irregular heartbeats. 87 people (1.1 %) who owned dogs died during the study.

1990s - Heart attack & irregular heartbeats. Nineteen of the 282 people (6.7 %) who did not own dogs died.

One third sleeping and relaxing; One third with family and home responsibilities

One third colleagues at work

Effects on blood pressure 70 agents in New York City

“The more people felt supported by their co-workers, the smaller the increases in their blood pressure in the work environment.”

Suggestions for nurturing relationships: Stay in touch.

Don’t compete Be a good listener. Don’t overdo it. Appreciate friends and family.

Medical Ministry, page 204. E. G. White “Christian kindness and earnest consecration are constantly to be manifest in the life.”

Philippians 2:3-4, NKJV Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself....

Philippians 2:3-4, NKJV ...Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

John 13:24, 35, NIV ‘A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another...

John 13:24, 35, NIV ...By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another’.

1 John 3:16, NKJV By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Matthew 23:11, KJV But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

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