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.

  • 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.