Strengthening Friendships in the Digital Age with Mobeen Vaid

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Episode Summary

Interview with Mobeen Vaid on strengthening friendship in the digital age.

Episode Notes

Find Mobeen's writings at MuslimMatters and Medium.

• The nature of friendships and how they've changed over time
• Choosing when to engage or disengage with those you disagree with
• Self-promotion to share beneficial work vs. narcissism
• Lebron or MJ?
• Healthy downtime activities
• Spillover of online issues into real life
• Creating a sense of warmth for brothers
• Effect of MSA's in cultivating bonds of brotherhood and religious identity
• Similarities between WhatsApp groups and reality TV
• How we define religiosity
• Stories of our shared experiences delivering khutbah

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