Why tech companies shouldn’t be trusted to cure loneliness

So — bringing us back to my original question — why is the Internet so lonely? I believe it’s because we haven’t yet found a way to meaningfully share our digital experiences.

Sam, unlike me, did not make the mistake of confusing technology with a virtual existence. Upon grasping that technology enabled isolation, I gravitated immediately to a hermitic life. Part of this was based on my medical realities, like a major stroke, but most of it was not. It turned out, for me, to be an unsatisfactory existence. I now crave hu

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