Where Did All Your Zoom Friends Go?

They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.

 

 "But for all the talk of Zoom fatigue, a lot of people, like Ms. Gauthier, miss all of the creative ways people found to connect, which have since gone the way of grocery washing and car parades.

“Everybody was sort of equal distance when we were all distanced,” said Emily Phalen, a research associate at the University of Iowa. Last summer, invoking Jackbox games, she tweeted that “a jack box night with my friends that live across the country sounds so lovely.”

Now, the 25-year-old said, she’s struggling to figure out what adult friendships are even supposed to look like.

“How much time do adults spend together? How much time do they talk together?” Ms. Phalen asked. “It always feels to me like it should be more than I’m doing.”

“What I miss most about it is getting everyone in one space and catching up together, as opposed to just visiting one friend wherever they are,” said Markie Heideman, a 25-year-old marketing professional in Howell, Mich., who also confessed to missing Zoom happy hours on Twitter last year."

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Where Did All Your Zoom Friends Go? – DNyuz