Loneliness is as bad for one's health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day according to researchers. A report has found that Australians aged 28-24 years old suffer from loneliness the most and over 70% of Australians have less than 60 minutes of face-to-face contact a day.
"When you're physically present with another person, the chemical, brain-to-brain interaction is much more effective and cannot be replicated by technology," says a neuro-science expert, Dr Fiona Kerr.
