A couple of weeks ago, my friend wrote a message in our group chat, announcing that he’s moving to Newcastle—somewhere I love but rarely go. The initial flicker of excitement to visit the North East ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Izzy Miller downloaded 500,000 messages from his seven-year group chat, then trained an AI language model to ...

Recently, I came upon a meme that exemplified perhaps the darker part of group friendships: exclusion. The meme, which I'll detail below, highlights that while friendships and group bonds can offer us ...

While reading through my group chat notifications the other day, I noticed a little scuffle building in one of the groups chats that I was in: What had begun with a playful changing around of group ...

The internet, our smartphones and the mechanics of social media have irreparably altered friendship. In late December, Melissa Cabrera was enjoying her day, cooking, cleaning and creating a vision ...