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When virtual friendships feel more real than physical ones

I feel more connected to my online gaming friends who I have never met than to my real-life neighbors and this seems wrong but I cannot change it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital communities can offer understanding and acceptance that our physical communities fail to provide, creating genuine but geographically impossible relationships.

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“Where Are You with Technology and intimacy?”

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