I started a long-distance relationship with a cat. We play chess via e-mail. Or something like that.
Schlagwort: Beziehungen
Sorge ist Sucht.
Freude und Sorge sind transitiv.
Soci(otechnologic)al Reduction.
Am I accusing all those hundreds of millions of users of social networking sites of reducing themselves in order to be able to use the services? Well, yes, I am. [...]
When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?
[...] on a typical social networking site, either you are designated to be in a couple or you are single (or you are in one of a few other predetermined states of being) — and that reduction of life is what gets broadcast between friends all the time. What is communicated between people eventually becomes their truth.
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not A Gadget.
The other side of the table.
We‘d find out that the two of you haven‘t actually agreed on lots of things, but worked with assumptions yourselves.
Younger and Free.
Hello
It's me
I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet