Quasi-relevant story; During rural electrification in the first half of the 20th century they started running power lines to fairly isolated farmhouses. Like "Your neighbor is a mile down the road, and his neighbor is a mile further than that" isolated. Places where you couldn't really stop in to chat while you had shit to do. But due to some kind of socialist insanity it was decided that rural electrification was good, so they were running power lines all through these isolated low population density areas. And it turns out that you can run phone lines just as easily as you run power lines, so all these very isolated people were getting phones for the very first time. Back then there weren't really individual phone lines. The phone was always on. You'd pick it up and ask to speak to the telephone operator, and that person would manually route your telephone connection. But that meant that everyone on the circuit could essentially pick up the phone and either talk or listen in to anyone else on the circuit. So all these rural farmers were basically in a big group chat with each other in the evenings when it was too dark to work but they weren't in bed yet. People could actually socialize without devoting big chunks of the day to travelling.

Well, what happened is rural suicides plummeted.