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I think social media has become a sort of super stimulus. much like the beetle in Australia that finds a beer bottle much more sexy than an actual female beetle, social media tends to give people the feeling of socializing, but none of the actual community. It’s friends without work, without needing to make time or space for the other person. You actually don’t have a social relationship with online “friends”, as there’s no real sense of reciprocal relationship. I don’t think I could legitimately expect anyone here to help me with anything. I don’t think I could really talk about a genuine emotional need with anyone here. But it’s the same in reverse. You don’t expect that from me either. We talk at each other. And to be honest, I don’t think we really know each other as friends. I know very little about your life, and you know nothing of mine. It’s a pararelationship, where we have a simulation of a relationship, but don’t really have one.
Many Australians can say the same, without even having to be a beetle!
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