"Ce qui m’a frappé surtout, c’était toute cette fragilité humaine d’adultes comme de jeunes qui ne savent plus comment se parler et se relier.

Alors qu’il faudrait si peu de choses."

"On n’a pas besoin de portiques, de policiers, de contrôles et d’interdits supplémentaires, de psychologues partout et encore moins de placer les jeunes sous traitement médical… non, il faut commencer par donner la parole aux jeunes."

An article about the friend.com product

"We don't need an app or a pendant. We need to relearn the ancient skill of being a neighbor. Not just in a geographical sense, but in a communal one. We need to actively seek out the friction again. That's the real secret to making a friend. You have to put yourself in a position to get embarrassed, and realize that it's okay."

"Friendship isn't born in the perfectly curated profile or the algorithmically-approved match. It's forged in the shared, slightly vulnerable moments between the main events. It's the way you fumbled when you said, "Hey, a few of us are going out after work, wanna come?" It's the awkward way you said, "I noticed you're reading that book too, I loved it," when talking to a stranger at the park. It's the simple act of consistently showing up at the same place, the gym, the soccer game, the cafe, and becoming a familiar face, not a stranger."

"Do you want the Internet to be an extension of your existing offline relationships, or to be separate from your offline life? "

"Social media made me feel like I had no excuse to ping someone to catch up because I’d already seen everything they’d been doing, so I needed some reason to call."

Since I stopped checking Instagram regularly, I have lost touch with some people and I felt the same feeling. I am thinking of adding more people from social media in my contacts list so I can catch up with them more easily

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The inventor of the web on what the web has sadly become

An interesting deep dive on the phenomena of cozycore

Sadly so true ... How companies want to simplify but don't do the right things

The force of low self-esteem can feel so enormous, so unexplainable, it seems almost mythic, Vivian Gornick writes.

Un fait historique sur le domaine du transport dont je n'avais aucune connaissance. Découvert grâce à l'excellente veille de Louis Derrac que je ne peux que vous conseiller !

"En avril 2023, le Centre de compétences en durabilité de l’Université de Lausanne a publié une étude sur l’impact du numérique et du télétravail, peu diffusée dans les médias. Et pour cause: Johann Recordon y démontre que les problèmes créés sont nombreux"

Many young people across Asia are cutting themselves off from society, locking themselves at home for months or years. Here’s why.