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alstoc's avatar

I don’t think nowadays people treat friendships with the importance they deserve. Friendships are considered a “nice to have” at best and expendable. They are immediately sacrificed as soon as anything comes along the way that conflicts with them (jobs, love relationships, moves, or any other type of commitment). People never consider to design their lives around friendships.

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Julian's avatar

As someone who's on the front-lines of this battle against widespread loneliness, I wholeheartedly agree with this.

Over the past 7 years, my partner and I have tried to help almost a million people to make genuine new friends in their area.

Although we've already 'facilitated' tens of thousands of real, in-person friendships, our findings suggest that matching highly compatible groups of people together is not enough. We need a better understanding of the psychology behind these early interpersonal dynamics if we are to stem the tide of social disconnection at scale.

If you care about this problem and want to get involved, I'm reachable at julian at we3app.com. You can also check out what we're doing over at We3. (https://www.we3app.com)

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