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My girlfriend's niece is in her 20s and talks incessantly about people she has never known or will never meet. She's a walking US magazine. It's disturbing th

My girlfriend's niece is in her 20s and talks incessantly about people she has never known or will never meet. She's a walking US magazine. It's disturbing that she treats PR releases like holy texts. These ARE the people in her life and they don't know she exists.

whatshisface 3y ago
The phenomenon you're describing is hardly limited to parasocial relationships. Some people talk about sports teams, others about company stocks they have no valuable information on, others about drama in their subcultures, others about world news... we are about to start getting huge amounts of discussion around election polling in states none of your friends live in. "Do I have any power over anything related to this information?" has almost no psychological significance. I do not know whether TV show plots belong in this list, but they might.
- Mistletoe 3y ago
  I’d say the difference is you can’t be friends with a sports team or stocks and let it replace your interpersonal relationships.
rightbyte 3y ago
She likes gossip?