{"id":7895,"date":"2020-12-11T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/how-to-prevent-loneliness-in-a-time-of-social-distancing\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:34:18","slug":"how-to-prevent-loneliness-in-a-time-of-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/how-to-prevent-loneliness-in-a-time-of-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Loneliness in a Time of Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is not\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0only public health threat we should be worried about\u2014loneliness is one as well. So how can you cultivate your social well-being while avoiding infection?<\/p>\n<p>People often blame technology for\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0prevalence of loneliness, pointing out that we spend too much time scrolling through social media and not enough of it interacting IRL. Yet recent\u00a0research\u00a0from\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health paints a more nuanced picture:\u00a0<em>how<\/em>\u00a0you use such platforms seems to matter more than how\u00a0<em>much\u00a0<\/em>you do so. We can all benefit from developing digital habits that support meaningful human connections.<\/p>\n<p>Now is\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0perfect time to practice using technology in socially healthy ways. Here are a few suggestions for how to connect without contact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-to-prevent-loneliness-in-a-time-of-social-distancing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is not\u00a0the\u00a0only public health threat we should be worried about\u2014loneliness is one as well. So how can you cultivate your social well-being while avoiding infection? People often blame technology for\u00a0the\u00a0prevalence of loneliness, pointing out that we spend too much time scrolling through social media and not enough of it interacting IRL. Yet recent\u00a0research\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0Harvard T. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,138],"tags":[563,917,253,2079,2080,82,2569,2597,2570],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}