Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?

Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by reificator on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:06PM (#21846083)

> Funny how I can interact with strangers in the real-world and sometimes walk away refreshed but I am not sure there's a single time I have ever read a stream of tweets from strangers and felt anything but anger and nausea?

Really? I find the opposite. There are few people I can talk to for hours, most face to face communication even with people I like is exhausting after just a few minutes. But I can spend all day online and feel refreshed.

Granted I stay away from cesspools like Twitter. Really I go out of my way to not spend time online in places that don't add some sort of value to my life.

I think it's a difference in communication preferences that gets magnified by your environment growing up.

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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by jlokier on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:27PM (#21846723)

I think the difference is the GP is thinking of cesspools like Twitter, and you're thinking of more uplifting communities.

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Re:Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did? by accelerating on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:25PM (#21846715)

Short: 'Censoring Digital and Social Fake'?

REM: 'Tyrannys have concentrated views.'

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