Pandscope
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Recent research highlights a crisis among young adults aged 18-26: alarming levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. Despite being digitally connected, many feel isolated and struggle to find a sense of community. Pandscope helps with this by connecting you to others who are feeling similar emotions.
The mission
Create a platform that bridges emotional gaps, fosters genuine connections and understanding among young adults who feel isolated and unheard.
The challenge
Overcome the stigma surrounding mental health, encourage vulnerability and ensure privacy and safety in sensitive conversations. Create a user-friendly platform that makes people feel at home.
Emotional bandwidth
While this is the safest and most tech-advanced time in history, young people face unique challenges that make the future feel uncertain. Economic pressures, COVID-19 aftermath, unaffordable homeownership, climate change, and a growing individualistic culture are just some of the frustrations currently felt. These make it difficult to form and maintain relationships, weakening support networks. As a result, many withdraw socially, leading to a lack of peer support, with 61% of young adults reporting serious loneliness.
App-athy to empathy
71% of young adults also feel that social media has contributed to greater levels of loneliness, citing that it creates a paradox of connection. The idea was to shift the focus on superficial connections to meaningful connections. Instead of promoting comparison and competition, I wanted a platform to foster genuine empathy and understanding.
Lonely hearts club
By matching users based on shared emotional experiences, Pandscope aims to create a space where people can connect on a deeper level, providing the support and companionship that is missing in traditional social media. This approach not only combats loneliness but also encourages open dialogue and authentic relationships, providing much-needed peer support in a growingly-stressed and disconnected world.
