Intentionally cultivate relationships with the Symbiosis app

The Symbiosis app works on both a micro and macro level, helping you track, analyze, and cultivate both your individual relationships and your overall social wellbeing.

While the Symbiosis app is primarily focused on helping you cultivate friendship and community, we acknowledge the critical role that relationships of all kinds play in your life. People are not one-dimensional or definable by a single label, and neither are relationships. Complex and varied relationships are essential for our social, mental, communal, and economic wellbeing. In addition to friendhips, the Symbiosis app will also help you balance and cultivate other kinds of relationships, such as relationships with acquaintances, coworkers, family members, romantic partners, and roommates. We don't think you should have 1500 friends, but we do think we can help you make enough close ones if you cultivate your other relationships on Symbiosis. Having a holistic view of your relationships and wellbeing helps us provide you with personalized recommendations and tips informed by social wellbeing research.

How do you know the Symbiosis app is for you?

Have you wondered...

How can I improve my social life?

If you want to improve your social life, the Symbiosis app is for you! Our aim is to make it easy, fast, and affordable. There are a lot of ways we do this. We help you find new acquaintances, intentionally build relationships, and get involved in communities. From your personal holistic social health screen, you can find features to develop your sense of belonging, sense of purpose, sense of support, and sense of gratitude. These are skills and biological functions that need development and care. It's like working out or learning something, frequent effort will make it easier and infrequent effort will make it harder. Symbiosis is designed for both people with excellent social wellness and people struggling. It's our mission and unique value proposition to help people who are struggling.

How do I make friends as an adult?

A lot of adults struggle to make casual or close friends and face loneliness

It often takes 90 hours of bonding time with someone to consider them a friend rrather than an acquaintance or casual friend; for close friends and best friends it can often be more than 200 hours!

Many people at all ages struggle to make new friends. Sometimes this struggle is exacerbated by factors outside of our control. Sometimes a little guidance and an external motivator can help make a meaningful difference. The Symbiosis app hopes to help guide and motivate you in your efforts to cultivate new relationships. You will be able to use it to identify social contacts and strangers with similar interests and plan social gatherings involving your favorite activities. Unlike many other event platforms, the Symbiosis app's gatherings are designed for the use case of small groups that more accurately reflect natural friendship. The app is also designed to encourage repeated frequent interactions until relationships actually develop.

If you are looking for more resources besides the Symbiosis app to help you make friends as an adult, Symbiosis Applications, PBC plans to post helpful content on symbiosisapplications.com. Check back soon for updates.

What should I do?

Almost everyone is familiar with boredom

Sometimes it is unclear how to meet people or plan activities

Symbiosis makes planning spontaneous activities with social contacts or strangers fast and easy. Whether you know what you want to do or are looking for any solution to your doomscrolling boredom, finding and planning activities is easy on Symbiosis. If you struggle to identify activities where you can interact with other adults that do not involve alcohol or something else that does not fit you, Symbiosis can help. We provide suggestions for many kinds of activities, and we will add more. Symbiosis learns from your behavior and that of your social contacts and communities, so your experience will get even easier the more you use the app.

How can I better stay in touch with friends?

Is being a more active friend one of your frequent New Year's resolutions?

Busy adults know it is sometimes more difficult than expected to stay in active contact with friends. Reprioritizing our time among different people and activiies is a natural part of life. As we move, marry, have children, take up new jobs, and progress through life, it is all too easy to lose contact with people previously close to us. Many cognitive biases worsen this behavior. If you are wanting to reconnect with your formerly active friends, they likely want to reconnect as well!

The Symbiosis app provides reminders and suggestions to contact friends and revive conversations. You can also use the app to track your relationship activity and chat directly within the app to make intentional relationship cultivation fast and easy.

How can I be a better friend?

Even people who care often struggle to know how to be a better friend or supporter.

People are complex. Relationships are complex. The fact that you care is a great first step. Symbiosis helps people analyze the traits of their relationships and provides tips for improvement. Our most important tip:s spend quality time with the people you care about and tell them what they mean to you.

How do I learn more about the Symbiosis app?

Check out the Frequently Asked Questions page

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