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Lonely? There's an app for that... but should there be?

Lonely? There's an app for that... but should there be?

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We're back with "All the Lonely People," a series diving deep into
how loneliness shows up in our lives.

This week: can tech cure our loneliness? Companies like Meeno (an
AI relationship coaching app), Peoplehood (a platform that
organizes guided group conversations), Timeleft (an app which
matches strangers for dinner), and Bumble for Friends all say they
want to help people make more and better connections. But do we
need tech solutions to what may partially be a tech problem?
Brittany sits down with Sam Pressler, who studies community and
social connection at the University of Virginia's Karsh Institute
of Democracy, and Vauhini Vara, veteran tech reporter and author of
the upcoming book Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, to break
it all down.

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