Messenger chats bring people closer than video chat, study finds


  • TECH
  • Saturday, 10 Apr 2021

A recent study has found that messaging other people is more likely to make you feel more connected to the outside world than video chat. — dpa

In case you haven’t noticed by now, Zoom is hard.

When people aren’t talking over each other, they leave long silences or forget to mute their microphones. At this point of the pandemic, we’re all past having our fill of video conferences.

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