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I think digital spaces have added an additional dimension of social reciprocity. Just one tiny example is the "courtesy like" when having a friendly interactio
by olah_1 7y ago
I think digital spaces have added an additional dimension of social reciprocity.
Just one tiny example is the "courtesy like" when having a friendly interaction on twitter. It's like waiting to go back inside your house until your guest has fully driven out of your driveway and gone away.
Healthy technology is additive, not subtractive of our existing lives. And I think it's natural for us to have digital equivalents of analog reciprocity.
- awinder 7y agoSo, yes, some people don’t hear back from me as quickly as they used to. I hear all the time from people who are genuinely upset with me about that. To me, the problem is that with immediacy people come up with all sorts of new less-than-healthy ideas of reciprocity and social mores. In this case, the expectation of immediate reply because it's possible -- someone could not have that thought before the 1990s & ubiquity of cellphones, and more realistically it's within the last decade that that kind of expectation could even be possible.