One day last year, Julie Gauthier went on Twitter with a confession to make. “Unpopular opinion: I don’t have zoom fatigue and I miss zoom happy hours and game nights,” […]
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Back to news homeDating Apps Thrive in China, but Not Just for Romance
When Qu Tongzhou, a photography assistant in Shanghai, set out on a long-awaited trip to western China in June, she found the cities she visited to be unwelcoming. As an […]
How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture
This summer, when Ms. Okoro fell out with two friends, her first act of digital severance was not to block their phone numbers or to unfollow them on social media, […]
The Magic of Your First Work Friends
The things that Lisa Degliantoni learned at 22 from the two best friends she met at her New York City publishing job included but were not limited to:How to take […]
Facebook Debates What to Do With Its Like and Share Buttons
SAN FRANCISCO — In 2019, Facebook researchers began a new study of one of the social network’s foundational features: the Like button.They examined what people would do if Facebook removed […]
Now Going Viral: Meeting Online Friends in Real Life
Marissa Meizz, 23, was out to dinner with a friend in the East Village in mid-May when her phone started buzzing. She tried to silence it, but the texts kept […]
Ron Lieber: Invest in the People You Love
During the pandemic, Ms. Reynolds, who lives in Seattle, paid for a lawyer to help relatives of a deceased friend from Minneapolis who were trying to navigate the legal process […]
A Year Without Our Work Friends
My office at home is pretty well equipped. I have a desktop computer and a printer and whiteboards I installed with the ambitious idea that I would use them to […]