Signal Recruiting relatives through social media groups

Summary

This signal concerns Facebook groups being used to search for new family members, including new grandparents. Sitra cites a Wired article from January 2025 about adopting a new family online as an answer to loneliness. Kinship here is treated as something that can be sought, matched and arranged through social media. It shows people deliberately building family ties beyond blood relations. Sitra uses it as one of the signals behind an imagined 2046 magazine article that proposes legal contracts as a way to form families. The article asks whether the growing epidemic of loneliness will have been overcome by then.