Despite all the like and heart buttons, the one thing you cannot do on social media is show that you genuinely care about a specific person
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It is far easier to communicate sincere dislike, contempt, hatred online than genuine caring. Social media has an anti-caring bias.
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Following this election primarily on social media is emotionally exhausting because I think of the tech, not because there's a care deficit
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. No, I think anger is text friendly because we are more likely to use words to show we DON'T care, but non-verbal to show we DO care
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your feed *is* particularly bleak. With supporting data and stuff too 😂
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That's totally not true. My friends have given me love & support on Twitter for everything from my father's death to a bad day a work.
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I partly agree with you, but genuine care requires more than the push of a button. Those 140 characters can be used any which way.
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well, if the button is "send $1000" we might have some real caring :)
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