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Facebook and Instagram are just the two most popular examples but stuff like forums, group chats, reddit, Twitter, tumblr, they're all social media (or social m
by WilTimSon 7y ago
Facebook and Instagram are just the two most popular examples but stuff like forums, group chats, reddit, Twitter, tumblr, they're all social media (or social media-adjacent, I guess) and people make friends there all the time. I do think Facebook might be beyond the point of no return but even Instagram has these huge communities of people posting book photos or pets, which is vapid but innocuous and harmless, at the very least.
- Ntrails 7y agoEvery single stranger I developed an online based friendship with was a small community. I don't understand how you can do anything meaningful in a conversation with 2000 people - but 20 people in a chatroom/forum/etc mucking about? Sure.