When we hit refresh and stare at a screen with no new updates, it can seem that no one is on the other side. We feel the sting of loneliness in the middle of online connectedness. Sometimes we feel as if we are walking through a museum of relational relics and holograms. In reality, “it’s a lonely business, wandering the labyrinths of our friends’ and pseudo-friends’ projected identities, trying to figure out what part of ourselves we ought to project, who will listen, and what they will hear.”5
