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Re:A practical guide to reducing loneliness by bhalina on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:38PM (#26945411)
100% agree on lack of vulnerability. I am hoping that COVID-19 showed us that a social life on social media isn't a social life at all.
Re:A practical guide to reducing loneliness by mattgreenrocks on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:47PM (#26945524)
Vulnerability can be seen as a lack of control. And I really believe our generation is terrible at it. We say we want authenticity, but I think we want authenticity from people like ourselves.

Also, social media encourages a very performative style of vulnerability: "let me write at length about a small quirk," ignoring the fact that anxiety basically runs their life to such an extent that they need Twitter as a social outlet.