Excellent piece on how social media has made the online and physical worlds increasingly difficult to separate. I like how you described the online landscape as "an astral plane" that claims "to have special insight into your life," because that couldn't have been an apt metaphor. I notice that a lot of people often use the Internet in deciding certain things about themselves, like whether or not they're "queer" because they find an anime femboy hot, or whether they should self-diagnose themselves with BPD because they change their interests every few months. It's all based in cerebral abstractions rather than concrete interactions and things that can be observed in material reality.
Also, this is probably a sign I need to work a lot of my own online usage hahaha.
Excellent piece on how social media has made the online and physical worlds increasingly difficult to separate. I like how you described the online landscape as "an astral plane" that claims "to have special insight into your life," because that couldn't have been an apt metaphor. I notice that a lot of people often use the Internet in deciding certain things about themselves, like whether or not they're "queer" because they find an anime femboy hot, or whether they should self-diagnose themselves with BPD because they change their interests every few months. It's all based in cerebral abstractions rather than concrete interactions and things that can be observed in material reality.
Also, this is probably a sign I need to work a lot of my own online usage hahaha.
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