Talking about friendship with Leandra Medine Cohen

People feeling alone in their interests has always been true to a certain extent, but the internet has made it much worse. The excess of information allows you to travel down your path of interest with mad velocity. On the internet, Wonderland is recursive, with rabbit holes opening up to yet more rabbit holes; you never stop falling. And the furth... See more

By internet friends, I do not mean mutual follows. I mean friends I feel comfortable calling when I need a second opinion on an idea or just want to shoot the shit. If I visit any of these cities, I know I’ll have someone to show me the cool spots.

The more precise and niche the words I input, the better the internet would match me with people I could forge meaningful relationships with. This precision was hard for me, partly because my sense for how communication is supposed to work is shaped by reading mass media. Writing for a general public, you need to be broad and a bit bland. I didn’t ... See more