JA WestenbergMar 3
All you need to know about the tech industry is that the people building tools to "connect humanity" haven't spoken to their neighbours in 6 years
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@Daojoan Do you mean that in a good way? Like yeah, they kinda do build tools which connect humanity. Imagine any big tech... Tools might not be good, but they are still useful.

At the same time this sounds negative like "why don't they try to talk to people themselves first".

Mar 3 at 10:29pmMastodon for Android
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@Daojoan It's not like those people in particular don't talk to their neighbors, it's more like for all of us it became much easier to talk to someone on the other side of the globe (like you quite literally might be from me). Than it is to talk to someone who lives right next to you for 15 years...
Show threadGreen ex LibrisMar 3

@Daojoan It is much easier to open up to someone on the internet. If they don't like you, you can forget about it and never talk to that person again. You might even block each other. So the price of misunderstanding is extremely low.

Real life is not like that. In real life we have "small talk" to fill the awkward silence. Notice there is no small talk on the internet? That's the goal in life too: talking about something meaningful with strangers... But damn it's hard...