But listen: I'm here to tell you that's bullshit. Even if you had all the time of a letter-writing aristocrat in 18th C. Britain, bullshit.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Firstly, our social nets now are so much wider & more varied in terms of the type of contact/connection they involve, it's unprecedented.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Think about the digital/emotional codeswitching necessary to, for instance, go from talking to relatives on FB vs fandom buddies on tumblr.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
It's not the same thing in practice, because it's a different type of written communication for a different type of emotional content.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
So beating yourself up because one type of connection is easy, so why can't you just do the others, too? It's not you: they are different!
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Replying to @fozmeadows
At the same time, we connect with so many different people that keeping in daily or weekly contact with all of them is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
And not just because of the aforementioned time-limits: communication is two-way, and EVERYONE HAS TIME FOR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
A few of my friends have said that they want to send an interesting method of good length and end up sending nothing. And they feel bad.
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Some friends who used to communicate regularly when we were in the same country now feel pressure when communicating when they needn't
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Replying to @GarryPaton @fozmeadows
I don't begrudge them at all for it. I miss them, but I'm fully aware that we all have varying levels of time and energy for social media
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It may please you to know that the corn popper toy keyring you gave me in St Andrews has been gleefully claimed by my son to play with :)
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