It has never been easier to meet people than it is today.
We are always available, well connected and yet many feel lonely.
We share the most intimate secrets on social networks and still feel unseen.
Why is that?
What proportion do the pandemic and working from home have, what reasons lie deeper?
Is the price of customization an inability to adapt?
Helen Bubrowski
Political correspondent in Berlin.
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Simon Strauss
Editor in the Feuilleton.
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After three days at Christmas at the latest, our parents get on our nerves, in relationships we are uncompromising, even with friends.
Is the relentlessness of social discourse also a consequence of isolation in a broader sense, because we take statements out of context?
Diana Kinnert calls loneliness the "most invisible, but most radical and momentous crisis of our time".
The British have already set up a ministry against loneliness.
What can you do to connect people?