Social media can be extremely noxious, as you say. But I think it can also have this wonderful potential for connecting us. My single most effective way of making new friends was checking people out on Twitter and then sliding into their DMs to ask if they wanted to go for a coffee. So that's my other advice is to use technology intelligently.
On this episode, we welcome journalist Kate Leaver to talk about her new book The Friendship Cure in which she explores the crippling, damaging, life-threatening impact of loneliness and the severe mental health impacts of living a life disconnected from a support network of close contacts. But...there is a cure...learning how to connect with others and curate better friendships.
In the interview we talk about loneliness, how to make friends, the difference between male and female friendship, platonic friendships, friends with benefits and lots, lots, more.
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