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Social Media Can Facilitate Solidarity and Trust in Relationships
I think social media enables us to do this at scale and we saw it with trump and hilary that people would go out aggressively spend their time aggressively doesn't so doesn't. What we create once that process gets into play is a kind of avatar in our minds of who this person is they become this wonderful person It's the rosy sunglasses effect in romantic relationship and romantic relationships won't work if you don't have that rosy sunglasses experiment because none of these people are perfect you just have to believe they're perfect. I'm saying no the outcome variable is solidarity against an outsider against someone who's our enemy and social media can amplify that kind of cooperation that within groups go