Why tech companies shouldn’t be trusted to cure loneliness
Nobel discusses three kinds of loneliness: psychological loneliness (where you don't have someone to tell your troubles to), societal loneliness (where you're systematically excluded), and then spiritual or existential loneliness (unsure of your place in the world or whether your life has consequence). And each requires a different approach. Most t... See more
Rani Molla • Why tech companies shouldn’t be trusted to cure loneliness
Once they’re together, people can be good at finding commonalities.
“You become less of this, ‘I'm a consumer, I'm here to evaluate whether I would like to purchase that,’” he said. “You're not browsing Amazon. You're now interacting with a person. And you're just kind of feeling it.”
In other words, in person people behave more like, well, people.
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“You become less of this, ‘I'm a consumer, I'm here to evaluate whether I would like to purchase that,’” he said. “You're not browsing Amazon. You're now interacting with a person. And you're just kind of feeling it.”
In other words, in person people behave more like, well, people.
“... See more
Why tech companies shouldn’t be trusted to cure loneliness
In person is good, though not strictly necessary.