Nearly 78% of video game players say gaming has helped them meet people they would not have otherwise encountered, according to the Entertainment Software Association, an inconvenient fact in an era ...

Orrin Onken had always relied on his wife to organize his social life — until one day in 2024. He started inviting men over for lunch to ease the social isolation that comes with retirement. Though ...

In 2023, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a national advisory declaring loneliness and social isolation a public health crisis.

Partridge, Webbon, Fuentes, Nutricel, and more like them are creatures of an online swamp. Prior to the rise of social media, they would have been in the same Usenet channels where deviates found ...

Community features of online games might provide isolated young men an anonymous ‘third place’ to build crucial social connections they may lack in real life. This finding suggests the chat and ...

Major Maclin and Richard McClain settled into a booth at The Family Table Restaurant in Brown Deer with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and bacon filling the air. As servers darted around the ...

Emily Kavanagh is a Colorado based Feature Writer for Collider. She graduated from Colorado Mesa University with a degree in English Writing. Though she's been with Collider for almost two years she's ...