For many of 'us', our digital self may not be our 'real' self.
I think it depends on what people are like in the real world and how their sense of self. Perhaps the internet allows them to live a fantasy that they can't in the real world - like the people who are google intellectuals.
And for most of us, when we are in the digital world we may not even converse with our reallife friends, but acquintances and unknown people to us.
It is funny how emotional people get on the words of strangers.
Unless, digital becomes the same as reallife in our own way of thinking, but I dont think we are near to such culture change.
Many seem to deny that we are human.
Hmmm, in what circles are you in? When I say things like that in me 'reallife' circles, they call me something like the crazy Ed :)
Is it? That said, I'm used to have great times with 'strangers'. Before Corona times, I spend quite a bit of time at festivals and other places where music is played, entertainment is arranged (sometimes the DIY type), and lots of people around having fun. Many times had the one day, or one night friends at these events. In essence strangers, but for that one day/night, friends with good and sometimes deep and personal conversations. Interestingly, when I meet those one night (ok ok sometimes multi night friends because we see each other at multiple events) friends after not seeing each other for years sometimes even a decade or more, its like old times, and we are experiencing the one night friendship all over again :) Note that we dont share contact dteails, no phone, no email, maybe maybe Facebook, but even on that front I usually dont share those with these one night friends.
Me too - but they also think they are unaffected by all of the entertainment they spend consuming ;)
Nothing wrong with strangers in real life - they are familiar and tangible. It is the arguing with people who for all intents and purposes, may not even exist in the real world - as the AI is likely at the point that most couldn't tell the difference. And people thought the chatbot service was scary...
I have had plenty of these nights - and they are real. Would you have the same connection on Twitter?
Twitter not, but at Facebook, yes, or more or less yes. With some at HIVE as well. How strange. But yea, Twitter totally not :)
BTW, super cool you had the oneday/night friend experience as well. Not so many do, unless one is a millenial in eg a country as Holland were it seems to be standard to go to dance parties every single weekend. Those youngster are at least exposed a lot to these experiences. When I started to go out and about, dancing the night, and hanging around the day after, almost 3 decades ago, everything was in the deep underground. I must say, more day/night friends back then, then today :) Probably because it was all deep underground back then :)
I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s - I have attended the odd rave ;)
In the more recent past, I have been to quite a few salsa events and workshops, where peopel gather from all over the world. It is a lot of fun and can be very random.
Randomization is a massively important part of social skill development, yet people fail to see ho engineered most of the internet is. Who do they think is making those suggestions on the platforms, choosing a handful of feed contents out of the thousands of options each day, selects the next potential match on Tinder? It is all engineered - nothing random about it.
Absolutely! Too many dont realise this, hence so many people start to believe whatever they get pushed in front of them and stay in that tunnel. To me, quite unbelievable the mass is so ignorant.
Have been to a few salsa nights at clubs. Different setup to dance music, usually a room with kinda in between free dancing and demo dancing. Obviously also a room for free dancing, and also a room were one can get a teacher helping you out. Different type of people to dance events, but pretty much the same randomness between the various nights. Very interesting!