How come people who complain we spend too much time online don’t simply hang out with each other? Hypotheses:
A) they do, we just see residue online (null)
B) they are not locally dense enough
C) nobody wants to hang out with them
D) they want friends unlike themselves
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e) we'd talk for 2hrs and I only have so many free 2-hour chunks of time in my life
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E) Some combination of preference falsification + appeal to nature + cognitive dissonance WRT their subconscious values & conscious values.
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This is kinda like asking why straight homophobes just don't get gay-married
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asynchronous communication is easier to coordinate than synchronous
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It’s psychological. They don’t want to hang out with people but feel guilty about not socializing. Attributing this to the internet makes them feel it’s not their fault. People did this with TV before the internet.
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Suspect a combination of B and C where proximity makes taking the risk on uncertain social interactions less costly if they fail.








