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Lost in a weird moment: Where did all your Zoom friends go?

By Issie Lapowsky & Gili Benita
New York Times·
12 mins to read

They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.

One day last year, Julie Gauthier went on Twitter with a confession to make. “Unpopular opinion: I don’t have Zoom fatigue and I miss Zoom happy hours and game nights,” she wrote. “I feel more isolated now than I did when friends all took time to chat online at the beginning of the pandemic.”

Gauthier, 30,

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