IcooIey on Nostr: I’ve caught a lot of flack from folks for ditching FB, Insta, etc., “You don’t ...
I’ve caught a lot of flack from folks for ditching FB, Insta, etc., “You don’t care enough about us to be connected on FB ?!”
The exact opposite, friend, the exact opposite.
I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you yourself experience.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/sin-is-when/#you-treat-people-as-things
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