Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Sasha Freemind on Unsplash You are in bed. Your phone is warm against your chest. Seventeen unread messages. Three group chats alive. A best friend typing, pausing, typing again. And still, somehow you have the feeling that something is missing. When you look for that feeling on the internet, you hear everyone saying that this is not just you feeling like that. That you belong to the loneliest generation that ever lived. The headlines say it. Your own feed keeps serving you the evidence. But what if the story is not quite that clean? Are we the loneliest generation, or the first to admit it? The numbers that made loneliness a household word are real, but also slippery. 80% of Gen Z in the United States said they felt lonely in the past year. 45% of Baby Boomers said the same. On paper, that looks like clear evidence. And you think this is something unusual. But the problem is that most of these metrics are off.…