1/ Lots of people have talked about how the IRL vs offline distinction is increasingly outdated and artificial. The affordances and interaction patterns differ, but our social brains route remarkably well (albeit with some pretty important edge cases).
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6/ Like, I've met a lot of people on here IRL at this point. Most recently, I (finally!) got to meet
@MaureenBug. It felt like hanging out with an old friend already -- there was no perceptual mismatch. Same with@pwang.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1153320527903068160 …Show this thread -
7/ So for all the valid "twitter isn't real" stuff, I'd like to point out: parts of it are very real and increasingly disappearing by other means. Your twitter friendships aren't fake or lesser.
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