impacted by loneliness are younger than previously believed the participants completed the u.c.l.a. loneliness scale a twenty point questionnaire that assesses subjective feelings of loneliness and sites of social isolation the survey revealed that generations each adults aged eighteen to twenty two and the lineal adults age twenty three to thirty seven are lonelier and claim to be in worse health than or older generations it also showed that social media use alone is not a predictor of loneliness as many have thought that students have higher loneliness scores then a retiring and most of all that there was no major difference between men and women and no major difference between races when it came to average loneliness scores a mere fifty three percent of participants said that they have meaningful in person social interaction such as having an extended conversation with a friend or spending quality time with a family on a daily basis and if you're thinking this is all just fear mongering and that people have always felt like this well you'd be wrong the percentage of americans who reported.