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I think he's arguing against the excuse for avoiding healthy interaction rather than the medium of communication. If text messaging provoked us to be more earne
by psbp 13y ago
I think he's arguing against the excuse for avoiding healthy interaction rather than the medium of communication. If text messaging provoked us to be more earnest and empathetic, then it wouldn't be considered as much of a problem.
- vladimirralev 13y agoI understand that. But I am arguing that people are not less empathetic. People are the same. The expressive power of the text message is worse, but this is being fixed very quickly. If you count community-ranked reputation-based systems (such as say HN) it will be far superior to the so called "healthy interaction" in terms of efficiency and trust. Then there is video and audio communication. Perfectly viable to run 100 million dollar businesses and relationships. It's really not that bad.