Invite folks to join you in a daily photo challenge for the next two weeks.“Tour” a museum (like MoMa, Tate Britain, or the Musée d’Orsay) together from home while sharing your screen.Get everyone in the group chat to create Memojis-which are, frankly, hilariously terrible-of each other.Or do an article club, podcast club, or documentary club.Now is a great time to start participating in Wig Wednesdays. Make theme days a part of your group chat/hangouts.Host a drink, talk, and learn party, where everyone comes with a three minute PowerPoint presentation about a random topic.Host a long-distance dinner party each participant should cook their fanciest quarantine meal, set the table (with a laptop across from their spot), dress up, light candles, pour a glass of wine, etc.Set up a remote lunch hangout with coworkers, aka eat your WFH lunch together and chat like you would have in the office.Start a recipe club where everyone utilizes the same ingredient (probably beans) or cooks the same recipe and then shares photos and/or eats together.(The topic can be silly and the art definitely does not need to be good.) Or do an art challenge where everyone creates a drawing or painting inspired by the same topic and then shows it off.Do a weekly DIY challenge with other creative folks where you choose a theme and then make a project or craft using only the supplies you have on hand.Put together outfits in Photoshop for hypothetical future social scenarios and show them off to each other.Organize a remote game night this spreadsheet has a bunch of good games for multiple players.Or host your own trivia night for like-minded nerdy pals.Get it on an existing virtual trivia league (like this one or this one).Start a chill group blog that everyone can contribute to, à la Indoor Voices.Take inspiration from this woman and create ridiculous mini set pieces for your video calls or to otherwise entertain your friends.Send dumb Cameos from your favorite microlebrities to each other the custom videos run as low as $25, and are nice for a special occasion (think: sending a birthday message from their favorite reality show castmember).Or just learn the same TikTok dances and show them off to each other.Challenge a friend or family member to a dance contest record a video of yourself doing a dance, then send it to them to replicate and send video back to you.Or host your own dance party with friends by video chat.Join choreographer Ryan Heffington’s Instagram Live dance parties.Start a Slack or email listserv with your neighbors.Video chat with a friend while you both meal prep for the week ahead.Expand your network in some way find a Facebook group or Reddit community for people in your profession, from your hometown, who share a common interest of yours, etc.(Keep it simple/doable with a format like “Things I read, watched, listened to, ate, laughed about, photographed, and loved” and bulleted lists.) Get your friend group to start sending weekly email “newsletters” to each other.Make a TikTok account if you haven’t already (you can keep it private!), and ask your friends to do so as well-it’s a really fun and easy way to make and share weird shit.Try Instagram’s new ‘co-watching’ feature or try Squad, an app that lets you screenshare whatever is on your phone.Chat and play simple party games remotely using Houseparty.Use Netflixparty to watch movies or shows together.(It’s a particularly good one for families!) Try Marco Polo, a surprisingly charming asynchronous video chat app that is far better than Facebook or Instagram for video DMs.Do a morning WFHOOTD (work from home outfit of the day) photo call-out in your group chat.(Think: skincare routine, “get ready with me,” house tour, etc.) Invite your friend group to start creating lo-fi vlogs for each other.The Life team at VICE has been doing a daily laugh check (where everyone shares what’s funny to them right now) and a roommate check (everyone just shares what’s new with their roommates, whether it’s good or bad). Get creative with your regular friend group check-ins.(Bonus points if everyone shares a photo.) Set an alarm to remind you to do a daily vibe check in your group chats.When you’re feeling lonely and sad, having social engagements to look forward to helps a lot, and interacting with people regularly is a really good way to make friends (or deepen existing relationships). Not only is it logistically easier, but it’s also a great way to combat loneliness and general COVID despair. By the way, if any of these hangouts go well, consider making them recurring events.
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