Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said Wednesday he was pleased that his dating advice went viral on X over the weekend, adding that he hopes it encourages more real-world connection in an age of social media isolation.

On Saturday, Ackman wrote in a post on X that “the online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers.”

“As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling. I would ask: ‘May I meet you?’ before engaging further in a conversation. I almost never got a No.”

The post has received more than 3.6 million views, 25,000 likes and 4,400 shares.

“We have a generation of people sitting at home on Twitter, or more likely on Instagram or wherever, looking at people living sort of fake lives. The reality

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