{"id":1376,"date":"2006-06-26T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2006-06-26T19:28:32","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T00:28:32","slug":"isolation-update-in-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/isolation-update-in-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolation update in Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1375\">We were alerted by Barry Wellman<\/a> that Sebastian Mallaby would be publishing an Opinion section of the Washington Post on the Social Isolation story. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/25\/AR2006062500566.html\">It&#8217;s up now (and likely in print too)<\/a>, but Barry and I are both disappointed. Mallaby misses the findings of Barry&#8217;s research even though he mentions them. Twenty minutes on the phone with Barry, the top guy on friendship networks living, and Mallaby can&#8217;t tell that 15 is greater than 2 or 3 without changing what that means. <\/p>\n<p>No, no! We are not lonely and we do have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/172\/report_display.asp\">broader social networks than ever before according to Wellman<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t satisfy Mallaby; once he&#8217;s told that we actually have more extensive networks, he switches his stance to tell us that having a more extensive network means that we don&#8217;t have connections that are as deep as in the networks-formerly-known-as-lonely-but-now-known-as-deep.<\/p>\n<p>Mallaby&#8217;s suggestion form carpools is clever but only slightly extends your social network, only slightly deepens a couple of relationships. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a more clever suggestion: People should join bike-to-work groups. People who experience more physical exercise and who experience that exercise together are more social and more physicially healthy too. And they use no gas at all! <\/p>\n<p>Or to borrow from a scandalous talk by James Watson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2000\/11\/13\/MN111208.DTL\">people are happier when they are overweight and well tanned.<\/a> We all need to get to the beach and participate in that most isolationist of pleasurable activities &#8212; reading an engrossing book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were alerted by Barry Wellman that Sebastian Mallaby would be publishing an Opinion section of the Washington Post on the Social Isolation story. It&#8217;s up now (and likely in print too), but Barry and I are both disappointed. Mallaby misses the findings of Barry&#8217;s research even though he mentions them. Twenty minutes on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-news-of-news","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}