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Balancing perspectives in the age of the internet
The internet has both increased and decreased loneliness among people, depending on how loneliness is measured. People's self-referential understanding of happiness and loneliness is influenced by questionnaire-based assessments, leading to varied perceptions. Nostalgia tends to focus on the positive aspects of the past while downplaying the negatives, reflecting a pessimistic bias. This bias stems from an instinctual belief that things were better in the past, despite current advancements.