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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Homo Sapiens is simply new to a state where contexts can be highly personal but with weak/absent means of showing how much you care
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pursuant to prev reply, I compensate for this with an unforgiving anti-anti-caring bias and even more unforgiving attention economics
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by lowering the status of others, we raise our own.
Yes! I have communicated genuine caring and it has been mistaken for contempt.
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