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Internet Social Sight Blindness

Everyone should understand that in these times there are people we interact with on our fave social sites, that unlike most people, they are alone. Meaning, if all digital communications just suddenly stopped existing today, these people would be left in a (physical) world of strangers. Do y'all know what the implications of that are? Imagine, if you had no familial relations, no one in your life has known you since childhood, and you haven't anyone in your daily life that you have known from the time they were a kid. No school-hood buddies to swap stories 'bout back-in-the-day, no longterm friends you've known since your first marriage, no one who was around when you fought injustices that stripped away at your savings, no one whose stuck around the last ten yrs, who remembers when wrongful foreclosure took your house during the Housing Crisis, no coworkers that you kicked it with on your day off, or was with you at the company picnic when the ceo announced y'all ...