Personally, I’m about to sprain something from rolling my eyes so hard at all the hand-wringing news stories about how the Internet is disconnecting us from other people and making us more lonely. So it’s gratifying to read this piece in the Boston Review that points two key problems with that thesis (besides being fracking obnoxious): First, the evidence doesn’t support it; second, humans have apparently been worrying about increasing levels of loneliness since the 1700s.