The Great Friendship Flattening - The Atlantic
archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 17 Oct 2025 21:29:30 UTC All snapshots from host www.theatlantic.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee SKIP TO CONTENT Site Navigation Popular Latest Newsletters Sign In Subscribe FAMILY The Great Friendship Flattening Relationships are getting lost in the sauce of everything else on your phone. By Julie Beck Illustration by Juanjo Gasull OCTOBER 16, 2025, 1:01 PM ET SHARE SAVE All of my relationships live, at least in part, in my phone, where they are forced to share space with everything else that happens there. Lately, the feeling creeping up on me is that the pieces of my relationships that exist on that screen seem less and less distinguishable from all the other content I consume there. A lot happens inside my phone. It’s always trying to sell me stuff. Sometimes, it tries to scam me. It has games, videos, TV shows, movies, news, health trackers, podcasts, books, music, shopping,
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