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> nor do I miss its endless group talks without anything useful Much of human communication is useless (on the surface). > A trick I’ve developed, when giving
by joduplessis 6y ago
> nor do I miss its endless group talks without anything useful
Much of human communication is useless (on the surface).
> A trick I’ve developed, when giving my contact info to new people, is to enter my phone number on their smartphone myself, and install Signal for them
Pretty invasive. Also where I started thinking maybe the author just preferred for everyone to be on their medium of choice (rather than they be on somebody else's medium of choice).
- jefurii 6y ago> Much of human communication is useless (on the surface). Yep. It's called phatic expression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression). No information content but sends important social signals.