I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I hate modern hookup culture and dating apps. I feel like its commodifying human relations, completely reducing them to a transaction and devaluing them to the point, where finding a lasting relationship or love is a major pain in the ass and leads to major alienation, avoidant attachment and a bunch of shit like that.

    • scramplunge [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Was going to say this, but didn't know how to word it. "Friendships" are the same way. Because you're not friends with anyone, they're just in your "network."

      • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah. I live in a foreign country, where people are notoriously bad at making contacts, so you get a lot of people in your network, but few friends. A lot of my social interaction then come form places like this, where you end up talking about intimate things with strangers, that otherwise you will talk to with a friend. And it does give you some relief, some sense of community, but it is also like a cheeseburger from McDonalds or a frozen pizza - something is just missing, and a website cannot really be your friend.

        • scramplunge [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          In the U.S. people are terrible at it as well. The only random people who want to be your friend just got started in Amway.

    • chantox
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      1 year ago

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      • Steve2 [any]
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        4 years ago

        I liked swiping on people, that was fun. Lots of funny bios, cute people. And then they started swiping back and I suddenly didn't want to engage anymore. I think I just wanted a hotornot-style thing.

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This is correct.

      The best description of the dating app scene I've ever heard was "turning first dates into a series of job interview-like experiences", which is one of the most horrific things I've ever heard in my life. I already avoided dating apps and websites because I'm intensely paranoid about putting intimate, detailed, and accurate personal identifying information on the internet. Hearing that turned me off from cautiously venturing into the scene entirely.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      4 years ago

      Zizek talked about this a little, how "the encounter" that makes love romantic get stripped away with Tinder and such apps. There's no chance encounter or crossing of paths, everything has been prearranged by a corporation for you and so on and so forth.