One of the most important problems of the modern age that we are in now is individuality, individual life, and related loneliness. Researches show that the use of social media, which has become widespread especially after 2007, has a great share in this situation.
Loneliness and being alone are different concepts. Being alone is a choice. For example, if the person has the opportunity to share the same house with other people, he/she chooses to be alone when he/she chooses to be alone while he/she has the opportunity to marry. Loneliness indicates the lack and deprivation rather than the preference.
Along with the developing technology, increasing mass media have the greatest impact on the emergence of modern loneliness. Games on mobile phones, social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram cause people to be distanced from each other and lonely. A healthy person builds social and emotional relationships with other people. As long as a person balances between the time he spends alone and he spends with other people, there is no problem. However, it is a serious problem that people constantly want to be alone, spend most of their time on social media, and play games that will keep their minds entertained. Experts liken this situation to eating junk food, although eating junk food saturates the human in the short term, causing diseases to appear in the long term. Young people in this situation become selfish and intolerant individuals after a while.
Studies show that loneliness causes psychological disorders as well as mental illnesses and that the life span of lonely people is 10 years less than normal people. According to another study, 40% of young people and 27% of old people feel lonely.
Undoubtedly, the impact of the switch to digital life in Turkey has increased along with the world solitude and individuality. However, for religious and cultural reasons, we need to reveal the different aspects of individualism in us from loneliness in Western society.
Hundreds of proverbs and idioms in our oral literature, such as buying a house, buying a house, buying a neighbour, and needing the neighbour's ash, emphasize that man is a social being and that they must live in solidarity with each other. Research although the world with Turkey in the geographical also show that although increased individualism and loneliness, cultural, and our religious heritage is influenced us to feel both less well in the longer process compared to Western countries this effect. It is known that the number of people living alone in Northern Europe and Scandinavian countries in the world has reached dangerous levels. Another country with this problem is England. The fact that the number of people living alone in the UK exceeds 8 million has even brought up the idea of establishing a ministry on this issue. Turkey to be a Mediterranean country consists of friendly people; customs, traditions, and religious characteristics have contributed to our society being less affected by these negativities.
Although we have changed from the crowded family model in our traditions to the core family model, our tradition of meeting with our family members at every opportunity is continuing. To visit the family of the person who lives alone in Turkey frequently, eating with them, examples like free money to get from them when they need money, we in the show that is different from the individual life understanding in the West of individual lifestyle. The most important reason for this is that our deep-rooted family tradition that has been going on for centuries continues.