1/ Lots of people have talked about how the IRL vs offline distinction is increasingly outdated and artificial.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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twitter friendships are definitely real, I agree!
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The realest, sina.
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They are often less symmetric. Less explicit turn-taking, etc. Doesn't mean they can't reach the same level, but it's not just a matter of parallel play like when you were 6.
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Yea, that's true. Async sociality is...idk, like letter writing or something?
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For those of us born under Albert King's bad sign, if it wasn't for Twitter, I wouldn't have no friends at all.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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