1/ Lots of people have talked about how the IRL vs offline distinction is increasingly outdated and artificial.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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2/ But something I've been thinking a lot about lately is how twitter is one of the few places that allows me to regularly interact with people *in cliques* (but, hopefully, without the exclusionary part).
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3/ Like, most of my life, I've lived in densely interconnected social groups. My closest guy friends in NJ have all known each other and been close for, like, 20 years. But, like so many people I know, I moved -- so now I don't get the high frequency anymore.
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4/ You may get that with work or school still, but there is a different set of social expectations associated with those contexts. It's not really the same.
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5/ Meanwhile, the people I regularly interact with on twitter for fun and because we share common interests? They regularly interact with each other. And, it's a choice they made, not a work-related necessity (mostly). Preferential attachment where the preference is personal.
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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 …💥 (wannabe) Ƀreaker of (the Bad) Loops 💫 added,
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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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