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Bumble has a BFF feature.
OKC itself lets you say you're only looking for friends. Whether that discourages creeps is anyone's guess.
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Bumble has a BFF feature.
OKC itself lets you say you're only looking for friends. Whether that discourages creeps is anyone's guess.
Adult fraternities. More commonly known as secret societies or just clubs. Theres already a few of them, but I believe it's pretty uncommon to be in one. Make em so they can choose who to accept as well, something at least slightly exclusive is better for everyone in the end. It can really take any form, a clubhouse, house where some people live and others just come to hang out, etc. But what's really important is a…
Freemasonry in general is dying - it had a large spike in membership after WWII and Vietnam as soldiers found connections and brotherly love abroad (in the lodges all enlisted men were equals regardless of ranking) but in the decades since, convincing young men to join the brotherhood is difficult. I’m in my mid 20s and I’m the youngest member by 20 years
Edit: I should clarify that FM isn’t as secret-society as the media makes it out to be. It’s a great social club to meet a wide variety of other people over dinners and outings with a strict ban on all talk of politics or religion (an extremely welcome escape in today’s climate)
If you're lonely, adopt a dog from your local animal shelter. A cat is fine, too.
Excuse me, this is bad advice. If someone is lonely they will have problem to find anyone who can take care of the pet when they can't (such as when they are away).
If you're lonely, adopt a dog from your local animal shelter. A cat is fine, too.
Pets are not a replacement for human interaction.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-social-self/2011...
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You don't know what you don't know. Those questions merely isolate you in a bubble. They prevent you from discovering the uncomfortable different which might actually be exactly what you need.
It cuts both ways though. You only have so much time you’ll spend socializing. In a lifetime you’ll meet maybe 0.001% of the people you possibly could have. If you aren’t discerning with who you give your time to, you’ll miss out on more and more of what could have been better relationships. It’s easiest demonstrated at large events or parties: there might be 200 people you could meet, and you have 3 hours there. If…
Precisely because you can never explore more than a tiny bit, you can't know your snap judgements are not systematically blinding you to important stuff without just trying things at random sometimes.
" ...especially in the Bay Area. ... But there's a palpable lack of social fabric. I worry that this atomization is becoming a world-wide phenomenon – that we might be some of the first generations without the sort of community that it's in human nature to rely on. " Are we talking about a general problem, or about a group of 20-somethings who grew up with families, went to college where they had a lot of free time w…
A good roommate situation can be fine, but a bad one can be terrible. We've got to have other options. Current internet connection tools encourage you to stay on your screen. You could easily design a system that nudges folks to actually get together in real time. Let's say you've been chatting via messenger for 10 minutes. Then you get a popup that says, "{name} is actually only x blocks away -- why don't you contin…
This way, every unit is still self-contained and you can stay isolated if you want, but you can just as easily go read in the lounge.