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We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

For most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.

I want to be clear: not all patient communities are great, any more than online communities of any sort. But when a good one gets going, boy is it sweet.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Loneliness comes with life.