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When digital connection maintains friendship form but loses substance

My college friends and I have a group chat but we haven't actually hung out in person in two years and I'm wondering if we're still friends or just nostalgia ghosts.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technology can preserve the structure of relationships while their emotional core slowly dissolves.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Chosen family — building belonging intentionally?”

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