Digital Kinship: How the Internet Is Reacting to the Loneliness Epidemic

The Shift from Individualistic to Communal

This is a weekly newsletter about how people and technology intersect. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Hi Everyone 👋, This week’s piece is a long and wide-ranging exploration of how the internet is reacting to our loneliness epidemic. The piece may get clipped in your inbox because of its length, but you can read it on the Digital Native website here. There are lots of thoughts in here, many disjointed and half-baked, but the throughline is that we’re seeing a cultural shift back to community over individualism. The internet is powering that shift.…

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