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Message one person
- The plan
- When I sit down with my morning coffee, I'll send one message to someone I haven't talked to in a while.
- How you'll know
- One real conversation this week that you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Why
People with stronger social ties were more likely to be alive years later Holt-Lunstad and colleagues, 2010. A short message is the smallest version of that.
If it doesn't fit
Reply to one message you've been putting off.
Sources for this page
Holt-Lunstad and colleagues (2010). Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review.
Pooled analysis of many studies, 148 studies, 308,849 people: an average across studies; only as good as the studies inside.
What we use: People with stronger social ties were more likely to be alive at follow-up than people with weaker ties.
Checked Oct 11, 2026 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316 · PubMed 20668659