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"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation." This is less about Facebook and more about
by abnry 9y ago
"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation."
This is less about Facebook and more about people on the internet.
- quxbar 9y agoYeah, I was socially isolating myself online WAY before facebook!
- lainga 9y agoI see now: /r9k/ posters were internet hipsters, creating reality-distorting bubbles of isolation and despair around themselves before it was cool.
- daodedickinson 9y agoI managed that before r9k debuted... and I'm still socially bankrupt. There is no escape.
- km3k 9y agoExactly. You can keep going back and it was always happening on the Internet. I was doing this on various forums before 4Chan was a thing. People were doing it nearly a decade before I was born, on BBSes in the late 70s.
- graphitezepp 9y agoIt just steadily became more common. Turns out replacing real in person socializing with digital distraction is just not a good idea/
- whatyoucantsay 9y agoThe future was already there. It just wasn't evenly distributed yet.