. >>> now we take a closer look at loneliness, romance, and secrets.tory of manti te'o, the football story whose girlfriend never really existed points to something new in our changing world. not just a little deception, but a cruel and humiliating charade made possible by the digital age. abc's dan harris has more on the latest discrepancies. >> there are some reports that the girl who apparently so enraptured mant eight te'o was not a girl at all, but still a young man. there are a lot of open t this . but what we do know, romantic deception in the age of the internet is rampant. >> you fill in love with a blonde named abbey, but it was really this girl. >> pretty much all of it was, you know, me. just not me. >> reporter: a muscle man named scorpio turned out to be this guy. >> i'm not sure what i was thinking. >> and the chiselled jaw of jamieson king grabbed the heart of a girl named sunny it's called being a catfish. the word comes from a 2010 documentary about this well educated photographer from new york city for months thought he found the lov

there's an element of loneliness. there's an element of fantasy on their end.h who they are. and without, like you said, without the drummer and the lead singer you can be -- you can start a whole new band. >> here's the thing that many people don't understand, wendy and rel. rel, when we were talking about your brother, he's a about-looking guy. you saw from the video. when you're talking about a big-time college football player, who can walk across campus and i'm sure the ladies are -- he's throwing women off of him many days. why would this person be lonely? why would this person have a relationship with a computer? most people don't understand -- and i'm trying to put myself in his shoes. and listen, everybody has been lonely before. don't get me wrong. i've been lonely before. but to have a relationship with a computer or somebody you haven't met for years is a bit odd to anyone, dr. wendy. especially when you're a big-time college football player. >> well, i'll tell you how he can do it, don. in fact, he probably preferred this kind of relationship becaus

there's an element of loneliness. there's an element of fantasy on their end.insecure with who they are. and without, like you said, without the drummer and the lead singer you can be -- you can start a whole new band. >> here's the thing that many people don't understand, wendy and rel. rel, when we were talking about your brother, he's a about-looking guy. you saw from the video. when you're talking about a big-time college football player, who can walk across campus and i'm sure the ladies are -- he's throwing women off of him many days. why would this person be lonely? why would this person have a relationship with a computer? most people don't understand -- and i'm trying to put myself in his shoes. and listen, everybody has been lonely before. don't get me wrong. i've been lonely before. but to have a relationship with a computer or somebody you haven't met for years is a bit odd to anyone, dr. wendy. especially when you're a big-time college football player. >> well, i'll tell you how he can do it, don. in fact, he probably preferred this kind of relatio

he grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. for he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer, he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. for a true writer each book should be a new beginning or he tries again for something yet beyond attainment. >> that was ernest hemingway accepting the nobel prize for literature in 1954. he committed suicide july 2, 1961 in idaho. his granddaughter, mariel hemingway, born just a few months later. at the sundance film festival a few days ago, and interviewed barbara kopple, the oscar- winning filmmaker, and mariel hemingway about the title of the new film, "running from crazy." >> that would be me. and jokingly have said for years, i am running from crazy. i have been running from crazy my whole life. i said it in an interview, in the wind, "what a great title." >> what do you mean by running from crazy? >> as the documentary points out that there are generations of suicide and mental illness and all this stuff, it is unspoken, but my sister, my older sister who is in the

and in this approximate silence we have felt that not regreting has spared us loneliness. called at the door. you did not tell me about these hours, how thick they were and wounded. i hear myself telling someone to punch me just to figure the order of my beliefs. someone else in my clothes who would view this and move on. explain again the conditions that will bring along the morning and what it is here that convenes the night. and then the last poem is called upon living. they shove your feet out of the smokestack kitchen. they narrow the big sea sba a line of your sweat and then they take away your last word and then they take away another. now you put the keys back in your pocket and now you push on the door until it is in flame, until it is in flame. next reader is jane herschfield. . >> one sand grain among the others in winter wind. i wake with my hand held over the place of grief in my body. depend on nothing, the voice advices, but even that is useless. my ears are useless, my familiar and intimate tongue, my protecting hand is useless that wants to hold the single

search of a bit of a life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear. i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid i'm not my father must come back here we must go and live with him but he can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind him of him are photographs and the occasional phone call oh. love me i can't live like this anymore i'm sick i'm having a nervous breakdown this happens when a man is very sad when he has a lot of pressure on his soul and heart. this family is just one of thousands torn apart by israel's separation policy that makes it almost impossible to move between the west bank and gaza it was only after mohamed had moved that he found out his family could not follow because while he and one of his children have west bank identity papers his wife and four other children don't for reasons unknown to them . it was a big surprise for me they told me there is a possibility of changing it so i sent the papers up until now they have the file but they refused to give

mean i start going nuts when do you feel something oh you different person no i didn't feel the loneliness as a salute to the pain and hopefully because i spend six months in a little unit in the middle of. the shore of by cali lake in suburbia and i was i was very very into in a remote place it was six days walking from the first leg so it's a reset each year and the humid nobody visits yeah i met a little bit of hunter sense and fisherman russian of course who sometimes were coming in my hood maybe one or two. each moments or the friendly yes very very very very very serious and very friendly very beary and that's again that's a very very it's a very very and they were of very true people regular people you know direct people and i love that but sometimes i spent two months without seeing even a man and. you know i do know he's on. the list and i didn't see the solitude as a pain because first of all i had a lot of books and when you have books you're in a conversation with the people who wrote the book so you are you sure yeah i'm sure i always think that a good book that makes you be i

isolation is one of the biggest things that create the environment for this to occur just their loneliness. it increases vulnerability hugely. >> she says the sad truth is that many of us are those closest to them. >> the saddest thing about elder abuse is that people who are the perpetrators are the people that are closest to. people that care for them its also trusting nature of seniors that can lead them open to fraud. >> die nile to people taking advantage of them is huge. it does happen. it happens all the time. something seniors have to watch skpb careful about. >> on our web site on abc 7 news.com i'm michael finney 7 on your side. >> moving on more people are playing video games on phones these day autos a peek at a new game some say is >>> first, arcades then, living room. now the most likely place to find video games is on the cell phone. >> it means companies that make games have to adapt. as abc 7 news found out, one big name publisher is doing just that. dennis li playing a game hitting stores january 22. >> go on. cut. >> if it looks like japanese animation that, is because s

refuse to make room for gay people to live in stable relationships we consign them to the lives of loneliness secrecy fear and even of deceit i do believe that the church has a god given responsibility to include those who have for so long found themselves excluded this indorse from same sex unions is a big deal especially coming from an evangelical leader the bad congressman walter jones the north carolina congressman who railed against a library in his district for accepting federal funding to purchase more books some of which were about muslim culture jones told a local news channel that quote i want to treated fairly at all and i think too many times the christian faith is not treated fairly they want to books about the muslims faith let them have equal number of books about judeo christian faith. well jones swears he has nothing against muslims looks like the facts and his opposition toward a few books say otherwise and the very very ugly congressman steve stockton stockton a republican freshman congressman from texas has threatened to impeach president obama over his use of executive ac

looking through vacations love lives et cetera can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness. users became agitated conting the number of facebook wishes and comparing. 1 in 3 people felt worse after visiting facebook. those who browse but did not post themselves they were affected the most. in fact more likely not to use facebook. that's not good for the social network. >> we were talking that. some of the girls say they relate to this. they doe go on-line seeing everybody having fun. >> it's a bragging page. nobody posts things when they aren't good. it's all about look at me look at what i did. sometimes my friends will post pictures and they make it seem like their night was so good when i was there we did not have fun. you look at the picture we are so cool. >>> thanks so much, lauren. it is 11 minutes after the hour. the keystone pipeline is getting the green light in one state. the president may be forced to make a move. plus did she or didn't she? that's what everybody wants to know about the national anthem performance at the inauguration. take a look at the gasoline

envy, loneliness, frustration were cited in the study. joining us from los angeles, dr. wendy wash a human behavior expert. and from san diego, dr. bonnie forest. the impact of facebook, and i must tell the audience that i'm coming at this from total ignorance. i don't know facebook. i'm afraid of twitter. i think these people are going to take over the world. but facebook, let's stay at facebook 'cause all over the world i guess there are hundreds of millions of people too long this. is it a force of negativity, dr. forest? >> hey, bill, i want you to think about high school, only high school on steroids. and the worst popularity contest you could possibly enter. that's facebook. it's all about social comparisons. my life feels horrible compared to everybody else's. people don't post reality on there. they post the best impression. this latest study, what they found is people were most envious of even vacation photos. last year, american academy of pediatrics came out with a study that said kids who spend more time on takes book also find those kids are more depressed.

they suspect chronic loneliness can be driving the increased risk. >>> nasa scientists say the curiosity dust removal tool before taking these pictures showing the texture of a martian rock. you can see fractures, pits and tiny grains on the surface. the pictures were taken last week by the curiosity and show about one square inch of the dust. the nasa tool is just a brush that's at the end of a robotic arm. >>> the draft of a federal report released today says climate change is already affecting americans in the form of heat waves, heavy rains, floods and drought. the report was written by 2,200 scientists and is called the climate assessment. it doesn't say what should be don for climate warming but it looks at what to do about the effects of climate change. >>> hundreds of truckers had to spend the cold night in their riggs. officers began escorting traffic through about 8:00 this morning. all lanes opened up later in the morning. >>> boy it's cold there it's also pretty cold here and sounds like it's going to get colder. >> temperatures already dropping off this evening you definitel

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thing happens and with resources that that in moments of stress after retirement a in illness and loneliness think the most extraordinary thing that's happened as a result of the film is what happened on memorial drive. a local tex tire worker, kathy lamb, came to one of our workshops. we'd been working on this for a long time and we were showing bits and pieces of our work in different workshops and she came she was from said "i never heard about this." and she went and asked her father and he said people fell at my feet. why didn't you tell me? we don't talk about that. so she got the coroner's report, the old newspapers so she designed finely a memorial to the seven who died for the rights of the working man, took it to the city council and got their permission to put it up. and that was fine, she came over to the screening we were having, a rough cut in greenville, raised the $1500 she needed to build the thing. then the city council changed its mind. they -- we don't know why, but they changed their minds. and thin frank beecham, whose grandfather was the suspect of the mills heard abou

loneliness is a human condition, and isolation.inly we do a number of things primarily, one is to compare our world view, our take on it, our assembled hypothetical world with other peoples to make sure it's accurate because it's a matter of survival for us. >> rose: let me just talk about life in a sense of where you are and what you've done. all those grammies. a hundred. >> it's not all those grammies. let me explain to you. people win six grammies at a time, you know. they've come along at a modest rate. i'm not saying there should have been more, i'm just saying that that as a, you know. >> rose: that's not a big deal, the grammies, it's nice but many people have won. how many people have sold 100 million albums? >> that's a lot of albums. that's a lot of people listening to what you're putting down. and that's been, that's like the main thing. >> rose: that's the main thing. >> for whatever reason to get the word out there. it seems self serving, but what isn't, you know. >> rose: you can't go anywhere in the world. >> well t