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Shower thought- people spontaneously form genuine bonds online all of the time. Why do companies struggle with this? Make company intranet or IRC fun. Toss up a Quake, Valheim, or Minecraft server. People outside of work have virtual "teambuilding" exercises all of the time! Am I being naive?

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people spontaneously form genuine bonds online all of the time.

Do they?

Maybe I'm the odd one, but all my close friends are from meatspace. I have acquaintances in online communities, but none that I'd consider close. And a predominantly online existence sounds downright miserable to me.

More mandatory fun. Yay.

I'll take it if it replaces mandatory zoom fun.

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