Talking about friendship with Leandra Medine Cohen
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Talking about friendship with Leandra Medine Cohen
I was talking to a younger friend about this a while back—your Internet presence is increasingly more valuable than your real-life presence. Which is weird and dystopian and I don’t really know how to think about it. But it’s true, and I think people who are like, I don’t need the Internet , don’t understand the extent to which much of the p
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For one thing, the internet has taken the reward circuitry meant for social conditioning and has begun to replace it with parasocial conditioning; our reward feedback loops increasingly run through interactions with people we don’t know and may never meet, who have very little information about us or investment in our lives and wellbeing. Parasocia... See more
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other, psychologist and sociologist Dr. Sherry Turkle argues digital connections provide the illusion of companionship, and that we confuse ‘posts’ and ‘shares’ with authentic communication.