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Sounds like a macrocomplaint about microphenomena? If you manage to endure the first dinner party dialog between members of the upper class I think this is a
by hashkb 11y ago
Sounds like a macrocomplaint about microphenomena?
If you manage to endure the first dinner party dialog between members of the upper class
I think this is a little different; a dinner party presumably is full of people who want to listen to each other talk. (And novels are generally more thoughtfully prepared than tweets.)
I don't know if it's a seismic shift, but anecdotally I can say that my microcomplaints around the dinner table don't get likes like Kanye and Kim's tweets do.
Edit: something about the fine line between comedy and whining.
- rtl49 11y agoI agree the situation isn't directly analogous, though presumably one only reads updates from people whom one wishes to follow. I was trying to suggest that, with respect to this particular issue, social media has simply amplified a human tendency that has existed historically. In other words, it hasn't produced some "emergent" phenomenon that merits special consideration, as this article suggests.