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Yes I've felt the same way. I feel like we have an instinctual need for social connection that we've filled with internet. Luckily, we do still have meat-space
by flerchin 3y ago
Yes I've felt the same way. I feel like we have an instinctual need for social connection that we've filled with internet. Luckily, we do still have meat-space friends and family.
- joshstrange 3y agoYeah, that was a big reason I went to stay with my parents/family. I felt super isolated from my friends (local and remote) when I couldn't participate in group chats/communicate. Also I just kept picking up my phone to look up something or check on something only to re-remember I couldn't do anything. I had podcasts and audiobooks on my phone which helped but the isolation was a weird feeling I hadn't felt before. After I thought about it I realized it had probably been a decade or more since I had been completely without internet for more than a few minutes. It was odd...