EP might be making me feel even lonelier.

I think social networking sites (even more stimulating ones like EP) tend to make me feel more lonely.  I used to have my Google Talk on all day long while I was working, but don't know what to say when friends send me messages, and feel weird when I see a friend is online 'cause I don't know what to say to them.  And even EP makes me feel lonely, because it makes me realise that so many other people are lonely, and ultimately I don't know if there's much we can REALLY do to make it better for one another!  I once found someone on EP who I really connected with, but we connected so much that he ended up cutting off the communication off completely, it was too painful knowing that we could never really be together - continents apart, age difference of a gazillion years, etc etc.