Little about this is new or specific to social media, imho. People form attachments to characters they have never - or can never - meet all the time. Entire industries and university departments are based on this 
R.I.P. Kutner (from House): Parasocial Grief Following the Death of a Television Character https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29940828?dopt=Abstract … "Confusion between fiction and reality resulting from social media."pic.twitter.com/tjEtLly1nx
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Looking forward to a similar analysis of Game of Thrones.
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Aside from the facebook group, this is about the least surprising result I can imagine. How could your brain differentiate between stories you hear about real people, vs stories you hear about fictional people? It's all stories, in the end.
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There really should be a space for academic essays, because I kinda find this topic interesting, people forming attachments to TV characters, but I can't fathom how something like this gets into a science journal. These people were analyzing Facebook comments.
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The phenomenon of people forming attachment to
#TwitterCharacters (e.g. Neuroskeptic) has yet to be investigated. -
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The death of Amber was much more devastating.
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Het laden lijkt wat langer te duren.
Twitter is mogelijk overbelast of ondervindt een tijdelijke onderbreking. Probeer het opnieuw of bekijk de Twitter-status voor meer informatie.