All of that is true. But what I was mainly getting at is that even before all these social apps, there was still a lot of lonely people, and that I don't think that the advent of these new apps has significantly changed the actual number of lonely people, so going back to those day's by shutting down the 'Net isn't going to do much to reduce loneliness. What the Social stuff *does* do, IMO, is make the line between socialites and inverts clearer to others. As I said, though, that's just my opinion as someone who has lived in both pre-Net and the current times.
