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i mean i agree -- for context, i've been in read-only mode aside from here for a bit now, but i wonder what the remaining venues for social interaction will be

i mean i agree -- for context, i've been in read-only mode aside from here for a bit now, but i wonder what the remaining venues for social interaction will be in our internet-dominated culture, especially post-covid. even as i quit everything personal, it's still functionally the mode through which many of us now work. slack is social media, whether or not they or our employers would cop to that. maybe i'm extra pessimistic, but it increasingly feels like the internet is also becoming a mandatory component of having a social life (i'm in my early 20s, grew up on this stuff, etc). just can't shake the feeling that to recede from it could be futile, if only because it's becoming equivalent to receding from society itself. and the idea of not even having the option to is mildly uncomfortable.

dzhiurgis 6y ago
> slack is social media That is far fetched, but I don't know where do you work. I've got 2 slacks going at any point of time - work one is pretty tame and business only (our work culture is dry). The other one is for a developer community and I wouldn't call it "social media", but a community focused on certain topic.
core-questions 6y ago
> it increasingly feels like the internet is also becoming a mandatory component of having a social life Everyone still has a phone number, right? Voice calls, SMS, just remind people you exist, have little chats here and there. Get together in person, plan it old school. People might even like it.