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   Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 03:03:10 JST Dudebro

   • LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿
   • veff :trash:
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   The relationships he is reminiscing were not destroyed by phones but by atomizing society. See your high school friends stayed with you because there were jobs avaliable in your town be it factory or a provider for the factory. Now you have to move to be employed and you don't know your neighbors.
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     @veff @Griffith @Dudebro @KuteboiCoder
     Smartphones did their part. Definitelly. But it was also already inevitable thanks to the multipla-school to work pipeline.

     In short, you are prety much FORCED to move your living location 3 times during your socially bonding years. I seriously believe, that this is 100% malicious, but when you leave university by the age of 25, you have no childhood friends, no kid next door girlfriend, no connections in the new place of work, and no system in place to form a new friend group.

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     @Dudebro @Griffith @LukeAlmighty @KuteboiCoder Yeah but now we've got a chicken-or-egg problem, and one I've constantly been back and forth on. Was massive smartphone adoption a symptom of an increasingly atomized society, or was society atomized in large part due to the wide adoption of smartphones?
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     veff :trash: (veff@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 03:04:16 JST veff :trash:

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     @Dudebro @Griffith @LukeAlmighty @KuteboiCoder I'll also mention- although it will probably net me massive negative social credit- that a lot of "society" was founded on useful myths that kept us together. I had a relatively happy upbringing in my super-orthodox mormon family because we were an insular community which had shared values. When the Internet picked up popularity, it became obvious that the entire religion was founded on lies and deception, and that shattered all sense of community. I posit that the same thing happened to Christianity writ large and it wouldn't be nearly so destructive without the help of instant information propagation via the Internet.

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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 03:05:24 JST Dudebro

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     A rolling stone gathers no moss.
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