little surfer

And the greatest sin of all might be a tech industry that’s exploiting your loneliness by offering you friends that don’t exist. If a tech company can pull the plug on your relationship with a software update, it’s not a relationship. And if you are promising broken, lonely people that you can deliver software solace that doesn’t require them to leave their house, you’ve jettisoned your own humanity. If you are lonely inside, go outside. People are interesting. And most of them are outside.

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“Wanna do dinner tomorrow?” is better than scheduling something far off in the future, which gives you both too much time to flake on. “I’m going to see Backrooms tomorrow. Wanna come?” is better than a vague plan about seeing a movie sometime in the future. “Been missing you. Wanna catch up?” is a wonderful thing to text a friend.

via mike monteiro