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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by raziel2p on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:43AM (#39988394)
My life is also better, overall. However, I do miss out on important life updates from my friends because I'm not on Instagram. I could be a hardliner and say "well they don't care about me enough to share 1-on-1, so they're not real friends", but that's... stupid. I feel sad for missing out on opportunities to take part in their lives and life updates that way, and I know for a fact that there are rich connections/conversations that would happen if I were able to use these in a healthy way.
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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by randomdata on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:37AM (#39989147)
What do you talk about with your friends if the important life events don't come up?

Perhaps I just have boring friends that we resort to sometimes talking about what is going on in our lives. I also wouldn't feel like less of a friend if they didn't tell me something, but important life events in their lives are usually important to them, which means that they ultimately end up talking about them in some way or another.

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