While love seems to dominate the technology and relationships debate, friendships are also impacted by tech. If you move to a new city or country, it’s comforting to know that friends back home are just a text, video call, or snapchat away. But sometimes that easy connection back home makes it harder to hang out with new people in a new city. Sometimes you just have to be brave and ask, is anyone around here lonely too? Gabrielé Ptašinskaitė did it and after a positive response she created the Facebook group “Lonely internationals in Aarhus”. Today with more than 1750 members the group is a tool to meet people when you are a newcomer to the second biggest city of Denmark.

By Rocío Valderrábano