> You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side. A fairly large portion of social networking isn’t so much “chat

> You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side. A fairly large portion of social networking isn’t so much “chatting with people” as “Finding an Us so that we can get together and yell at Them”, and in those cases the dehumanisation is a feature more than a bug...