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How online intimacy can replace offline relationships

I feel more connected to strangers on Twitter than to my roommate who I see every day but barely talk to anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital connections that feel meaningful can mask the atrophy of embodied human bonds.

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