Occasional writing about online friendship, chat, and why so much of the social internet feels the way it does.
Chat without dating
Want to just talk to people online - no flirting, no agenda? Why that's so hard to find, and what a chat community with a hard no-dating rule feels like.
2026-08-06
Online friendships, not romance
Why every "friendship" app keeps turning into a dating app, what platonic-first design actually requires, and where real online friendships still happen.
2026-08-06
How to make friends online as an adult
Yes, adults really do make close friends online - but almost never where the big apps say. An honest guide to what actually works, and what doesn't.
2026-08-06
What old chat rooms got right
What was actually good about the chat rooms of the 90s, what was genuinely awful, and why the good parts turned out to be much harder to rebuild than nostalgia suggests.
2026-08-06
Why random chat always rots
Omegle is gone and the clones are worse. The grossness was never bad luck, it was architecture. What makes stranger chat rot, and what it takes to avoid it.
2026-08-06