As the internet grows in size, we feel like we’re surrounded by people and lonely at the same time. It feels increasingly harder to feel safe expressing ourselves authentically in the predominant gathering spaces. We feel like we’re either invisible or presenting at an auditorium. Things have to be more explicit, black-and-white in the new world.... See more

People were losing excitement about the internet, starting to articulate a set of new truisms. Facebook had become tedious, trivial, exhausting. Instagram seemed better, but would soon reveal its underlying function as a three-ring circus of happiness and popularity and success. Twitter, for all its discursive promise, was where everyone tweeted

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