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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange · Apr 06, 2026
"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds" From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/ "The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment. 'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release. 'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'" #NoAI #Loneliness
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@christianpost@na.social · Apr 06, 2026
The myth of cozy community: Why your search for the perfect Church is making you lonelier We are living through a relational crisis unlike anything in modern history. #Community #isolation #sacrifice #loneliness Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/why-your-search-for-the-perfect-church-is-making-you-lonelier.html #Faith #ChristianNews #Bible
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@fediboard_wellness@flipboard.social · Apr 05, 2026
Psychology says the loneliness epidemic in people's thirties isn't caused by social media or introversion — it's the first decade where maintaining friendships requires deliberate effort rather than structural proximity, and almost nobody was taught how to do that https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/j-a-y-psychology-says-the-loneliness-epidemic-in-peoples-thirties-isnt-caused-by-social-media-or-introversion-its-the-first-decade-where-maintaining-friendships-requires-deliberate-effort-rather-than/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F Robin Dunbar, the Oxford evolutionary psychologist who gave us the famous "Dunbar's number" — the idea that humans can maintain roughly 150 stable … #wellness #health #psychology #loneliness
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