If you're like many of us, you've made some very significant online relationships over the years. Are online friends real friends, or are they something more superficial? It completely depends on the ...

When I signed up for an online course, I wasn’t looking for new friends. I had just returned from my first trip to Jordan, and I was so inspired to share stories about a region often misrepresented in ...

Just as some friendships are really reflections of who we were at a certain point in our lives, but nothing more, some online friendships will only be able to exist when they are restricted to the ...

We have all made online friends at one point in life or another. Especially during the COVID-19 lockdown, we had bonded with strangers on the internet across various social media sites. We kept each ...

A first-of-its-kind study of U.S. adults suggests that all of those strangers you're friends with on social media are not helping you to feel less lonely. On the contrary, social media connection with ...

I had family and friends, and I loved them dearly, but there were some things I felt I couldn't tell them. WARNING: This story contains references to self-harm and suicidal ideation. That I was ...

The findings were published in Public Health Reports, the official journal of the U.S. Public Health Service, and are being viewed as an important contribution to understanding how digital ...