An anonymous blogger shared: “If I post something and no one responds, I feel sad and lonely. If I go on a friend’s page and see that they gave a rose or some other gift to a mutual friend, I wonder why I didn’t get anything.” (McGuire-Snieckus, holt) In today’s society, if we do not have someone posting on our wall or tweeting us, we feel as if we are unimportant. Statistics show that social media users are more likely to suffer from mental illnesses, such as depression or anxiety than non users. The symptoms of depression from social media, often result from being abandon, neglected or forgotten. Are people actually feeling neglected because they did not receive enough likes on their picture? The fix to the solution is to put down the smart phone and have a face to face conversation with our friends. No, not over face-time, but in person. Real life interactions are healthier for our mental well being due to the fact that we can physically witness that they are making time for us. Relationships are about the people we make time to encounter, not about the abundance of lives we keep up with over social media. Therefore; if we made time to see people the less lonely we would