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The Friendship Problem
At a cultural level, there is a lot of lip service about friendship being wonderful and important, but not a lot of social support for protecting what’s precious about it. Even deep, lasting friendships like ours need protection—and, sometimes, repair.
Aminatou Sow • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close - 'A life-affirming guide to creating and preserving great friendships' (Elle)
So how is it that we have entered into our most digitally connected age ever yet loneliness is at an all-time high?
A few things come to mind:
A few things come to mind:
- The new ways we connect lack depth
- We face information overload from too many people we don't care much about
- We move locations and jobs more often
- Information is decentralized: we go to technology for a
What the Loneliness Epidemic Says About the Way We Connect
The social networks made it easy for anyone we’ve ever met, and plenty of people we never met, to friend and follow us. We could communicate with them all at once without communing with them individually at all. Or so we were told. The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to mor... See more