why Loneliness and feeling out of touch with this world are not things that are experienced by only the elderly people. It is estimated that 3%-10% of young people between the ages of 12-30 experience severe loneliness, and 46% between the ages of 16-20 indicate that they feel lonely sometimes, but are too afraid to talk about it (rtlnieuws, 2018). Especially in today’s society where the pressure to perform and have this “perfect apparent life” is so high and everyone is seemingly living their best lives on social platforms, people are ironically enough finding it harder to seek out social contact. They face difficulty in accessing social support and creating and maintaining friendships and look at the world through black and white lenses where they see something that they are “supposed to be” (rtlnieuws, 2019). Some initiatives and platforms such as eenzamejongeren.com help tackle this problem. With this app, I want to contribute towards addressing this problem. 84
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