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Recently, there was a HN post about how volunteering was found to be the best overall solution for depression in young adults. I'm not particularly depressed, but I do live in a foreign country that, while incredibly friendly to expats, is notoriously difficult to make friends in. I started volunteering at a local organization that teaches refugees how to code, and I just have to say that it's been incredibly rewardi…
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Ok I'm Swedish, but my reading is "friend of someone" combined with "friend of you". It's hard to explain but it holds these 2 meanings very closely. Plus the pun of "valve" in the same word, which is also fitting, for letting out steam. Besides it sounds great in English. Sounds like a new expensive drug. Imagine the TV commercial: "Contact your doctor to learn if Ventilen is for you. May cause hair loss, liver fail…
but do you still think of "friend to one/you/someone" when it is spoken "ventilen" as one word?
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What exacerbates it is that modern venues for finding someone to connect with, are all heavily controlled and/or monetized. Services like OKCupid actually actively hinder relevant matches unless you pay them and keep paying them. Places like Reddit are hit and miss, heavily dependent on the time you post, and you not only have to risk your privacy to find good matches, you have to gain the approval of everyone else w…
For some of us IRC never went away. It’s my primary social outlet, and I’m closing in on 30. Maybe I’m a bit special as I moved countries a fair bit in my 20s, and making friends in adulthood is difficult. Shameless plug; if you want to join us (we are roughly 400 people) then the network is ircs://irc.drk.sc:6697/#darkscience
That's the issue. And it's exponentially harder if you weren't able to make friends in childhood either.
Can we make it a little easier through tech?
loneliness is a much bigger problem for older people. why not start there?
Well you are wrong. People between 65-79 years are the least lonely cohort in Denmark. People over 85 are as lonely as the 19 to 29 year olds.[0] [0] https://www.maryfonden.dk/da/presse-ensom-befolkning