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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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      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

      12 replies 20 retweets 69 likes
    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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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.

      6 replies 29 retweets 78 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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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

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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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

      1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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      Found myself thinking earlier today that I've never experienced a society with such calamitously low level of mutual caring as US in 2016...

      3 replies 4 retweets 12 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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      ...then it struck me that while emotional reserves of empathy probably ARE at historic low, social media likely exaggerates this reality 10x

      9:11 PM - 17 Oct 2016
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      • Content of Media ᚛ᚄᚔ ᚓᚌᚐᚅ᚜ Chenoe Hart Taylor Hodge rudy cloudman Lukas Meuser Nicky Williamson 🌏✈️🌏✈️🌏 Tyler Florez 🇺🇸 Rahul Horé
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        2. Jon Anderson‏ @YoungZipFile 17 Oct 2016
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          word, I agree.

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        3. Jon Anderson‏ @YoungZipFile 17 Oct 2016
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          hopefully we learn as a society how to cope with this. Otherwise Twitter’s value is neutral. All the bad negates so much of the good.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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          One of the reasons I'm experimenting with video is because it's easier to subtly express what you care about with face/voice.

          3 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Oct 2016
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          I'm probably in the bottom 25% of both feeling and expressing emotion. I can only imagine what this election is doing to stronger feelers.

          3 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
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