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curuniel · 5 years ago

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Hey friends, why are people surprised that passively scrolling social media doesn't provide them with a sense of "genuine social connection"?

Like yeah, Facebook sucks at actual social fulfilment, but this isn't the internet's fault. It's that you still have to actually engage with a person. Send someone a message. A meme, even! Otherwise you're comparing the online equivalent of passing someone in the street to getting coffee with a friend and blaming the internet for being inauthentic.

#this isn't entirely a fault on the people in question #given that Facebook actively works to convince us it's integral to social experience but arranges everything for sales not connection at all #but it's so important to take responsibility for our media use #for precisely that reason the platforms aren't neutral! we have to manipulate too!#internet culture

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