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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by hutzlibu on Saturday September 01, 2018 @03:11PM (#17893448)
I would like to add games to the list of counterexamples. Still works today.

Even though I never made friends online (as I was not so into it) I know friends who did.

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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by NeedMoreTea on Saturday September 01, 2018 @06:12PM (#17894162)
Does it still work?

I don't play online games any more, but my impression is they mostly moved from guild and group style like MMOs, where you got to know people and probably chatted on Teamspeak as well. Now they seem to be mostly random individual match-ups either for pvp or for a dungeon. That seems like it would take away many of the possibilities.

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Re:Loneliness is pervasive and rising, particularly among th... by logicfiction on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:34PM (#17894481)
The element that you might not be aware of is Discord. Primarily a chat and voice communication app but its divided up into individual servers run by community members for free where each is like a Slack server if you are familiar with that software.

I'm not in the child age group, but I've made friends this way as a 31 year old.

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