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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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    Many people complain they no can longer read longer things like long essays or books Something similar is happening to relationships beyond immediate family and workplace colleagues, it’s getting harder to keep up in-person friendships by meeting in-person regularly

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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        Easier to meet with person n for the 1st time than person 1 for nth time, once a reason like a shared office is gone Most curiosity about any person is satisfied after 1 meeting Particularly clear as a blogger. A lot of people are curious to meet me once. Twice, not so much 😆

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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        Not like being disappointed and dropping it, since things generally continue cordially with deepened trust, but meetings 2+ require stronger reasons, a theme etc. I’d guess the number of times I’ve met readers follows a power law. Takes me about 4-5 meetings to become friends.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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        Wild guess at distribution of reader meeting frequency Met once: 400 Met twice: 200 Met thrice: 100 Met 4 times: 50 Met 5 times: 25 5+ times: 25

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Sep 2019
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        I’m really bad keeping up my end tbh. But it just takes a lot of effort. Especially if you move around a lot and don’t live in places with a high density of offline+online acquaintances. San Francisco is probably the only place where it would be easy for me to keep up.

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      1. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose 22 Sep 2019
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        Sounds like a blessing one bestows “Should you be more interesting in person than on twitter” I think it’s because on Twitter, no one can see how actively you listen There’s no eye contact And no dynamic of voice

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      1. Gene Linetsky‏ @GeneLinetsky 22 Sep 2019
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        I wish Twitter went back to 140, or better yet to 80 and added a long post format to make it easier to ignore the other longform menace, the tweetstorm.

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      1. Eric w/ one wild life‏ @MutualArising 22 Sep 2019
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        It’s alright. The 20somethings around here are already meeting in saunas without tech and just chilling for hours. Just keep riding pendulum and don’t get smashed to the wall on one side :p

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      2. Tim Rooney‏ @tjrwriting 22 Sep 2019
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        I don't think this is anything new. Friendships are greatly helped when you're "forced" to be in the same place same time as others This is why people make so many friends in college

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        Yeah, rite of passage + location-based friendships make coordination faster and more convenient, buoyed by the shared context. But what about virtual meeting places for friendships? What can a video call do that an in-person hangout can't? And vice versa?

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 22 Sep 2019
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        Meeting a group of several developing acquaintances at once seems to be a more effective format for keeping interactions engaging + pushing concerns about there needing to be an obvious reason for meeting to the background.

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      3. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 22 Sep 2019
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        (I wish there was some way that a similar kind of relatively simple format shift could make it easier to keep up with long-form reading too.)

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