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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Found myself thinking earlier today that I've never experienced a society with such calamitously low level of mutual caring as US in 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
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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.
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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.
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In fact it's kinda revealing that many of my strongly emotional friends have either taken a break or studiously ignore the politics convo
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The emotional ones who've stayed in the conversation have, with almost no exception, been reduced to extreme, apoplectic fury
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I think cat/dog pictures are so popular online primarily because they help close the gap in Internet's ability to communicate care bits
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Feeling emotionally exhausted and worn out by election talk online? RT a kitten picture or two.
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hmm oh well, was a picture of a new thing: a piece of a broken jigsaw that suggests new picture
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