> And as cheesy as it sounds, try to surround yourself with supportive individuals who can help you maintain a positive outlook and try to be that person for ot

> And as cheesy as it sounds, try to surround yourself with supportive individuals who can help you maintain a positive outlook and try to be that person for others. One of the things I keep coming back to over the last few days is the increasing value of face to face interactions. It's been possible, and even easy, to fake pictures for quite a while. Recently we've had to treat videos with the same degree of skepticism we've been looking at pictures with. Now we're having to shift that kind of skepticism to all non face to face interactions. Like a lot of people here, probably most, I've formed a number of really meaningful long-term friendships with people I've never met, largely mediated over text interactions. I won't be surprised if, over the next decade or two, people end up developing "friendships" with what turn out to be bots. What kinds of interactions can we let our guard down and fully trust as authentic? Face to face interactions will be there for a long time. Real-time interactions with people we know and trust over a distance will be reliable for a while, although if they're demanding something unusual we'd have to wonder if they're being faked. The suggestion to make time for meaningful, direct interactions with other people is a really important one.