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How families maintain digital closeness while avoiding real intimacy

Our family group chat is active all day with memes and updates but when we're actually together for holidays everyone's still on their individual accounts and the real conversations we need to have about difficult stuff never happen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Constant light contact prevents the deeper engagement that requires courage and spaciousness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media and loneliness?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.