New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Solitude with a Side Of Fries

There is socialising and then there’s just putting yourself in a room with strangers. And it turns out that, while humans fundamentally crave social connection, we might be evolving into a species that is less into rubbing up against people we don’t know – especially when there are other options.

I’ve been fascinated to read that, according to business research, about two-thirds

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