scorecardZoom, a communications app for video conferencing, has surged in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. On Saturday night, I used it for the first time for a virtual dinner date with my college roommates.
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Zoom, a communications app for video conferencing, has surged in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. On Saturday night, I used it for the first time for a virtual dinner date with my college roommates.

It took this millennial 10 minutes to figure out Zoom, but I loved it once I got the hang of it. We spent two hours chatting, and it felt like we were in our old apartment back in college. I felt a lot lighter emotionally afterwards, and we plan to make it a weekly thing.

I also had a virtual dinner date last week with a friend who lives in New York City about 40 blocks from me — she's so close, yet so far in the world of social distancing.

I'm not the only one with the idea.

"Not being able to share meals with friends and family, to gather at others' tables or pull up more chairs to our own, has been one of the most disconcerting effects of the coronavirus," wrote Emily Heil for The Washington Post. People from Massachusetts to London are hosting dinner parties, she said.

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