[Andrew_uk]

Yes through it depends on the person. We are social creatures and most human beings crave or even require social interaction. The harshest punishment in prison is solitary confinement. I do see TV and other forms of entertainment bridging the gap as we as a society are not as social as we used to be. How many street parties have you seen?

But to show how someone can desire solitude the below is copied from a website:

'Tom Neale. After decades of bumming around the South Pacific, Neale realized his life's dream on October 7, 1952, when he was put ashore on Suwarrow atoll in the Cook Islands and took up residence in an old WWII coastal watchers' shack. Subsisting mainly on what he could catch or raise, Neale lived contentedly alone until arthritis sent him back to civilization in 1954. He returned from 1960 to 1963 and again from 1967 to 1977, when cancer forced him to check into a hospital, dying that year at age 75. Does the South Pacific have a lot of large, uninhabited islands that could sustain a person indefinitely? Who cares? As Neale showed, all you need is one. '

So it all depends on the person.