internet years
by rantywoman
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/20/why_are_l_a_people_so_mean/
Is it the Internet? Am I 42 in real years but 95 in Internet years? Are my ideas of friendship, truth, sincerity, generosity and character “old-fashioned?” Is the difference between “real” friends and “virtual” friends not even a meaningful distinction anymore? Is the “face” in Facebook unnecessary?
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Like dinner parties where everyone has to leave at 8 because the host is going out later with “other people.” Or people invite you out with them to a play and then they spend the whole time on their cellphone texting someone and making plans to meet them “as soon as the play is over.”
Tell me this doesn’t actually happen as the norm!? – this is appalling.
I don’t know about the former but I could see the latter happening, although I’ve whittled my friends down to people who wouldn’t behave like that.