We are living in a world where it's easy to talk to people. We can send messages to someone on the other side of the world, and they get it right away and can stay friends with people by talking to them on our computers or phones. This is a problem because we are always talking to people, but we are still feeling alone. Loneliness is what happens when you want to have kinds of relationships with people, but you do not actually have them. You can have thousands of people following you online. Still feel like you are invisible. (Hawkley and Cacioppo, 2010).  The Illusion of Connection  Digital platforms give us interaction through likes, comments, stories and notifications, making it seem like we have friends all the time. But research says it's not how much we interact that matters, it's the quality of that interaction. A study by Perlman and Peplau in 1981 found that superficial…