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San Francisco — A sticker on a wall in Lisbon caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Aug. 22, 2025. Click here for that audio. The United States is in an “epidemic of loneliness,” according to the surgeon general. The internet and social ...

Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks to raise venture capital funding rounds.

Correction: A previous version of this article mischaracterized the scope of a 2023 survey of U.S. adults from the Pew Research Center as finding that urban residents globally are less likely to have ...