CM 196: Kat Vellos on Mastering Friendship
Curious Minds at Work
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Social Media Is Taking Up So Much of Our Lives These Days
I think that social media has taken up such a big part of our lives these days, and we seem to be keeping up with each other through social media. I love how you help us see that we may be thinking that that time spent reading about a friend on line is really not as actually an illusion of friendship and of closeness. Ye, that passive observation of each other is kind of like passive surveillance of your friend is not the same thing as having a meaningful connection. There's actually a name for this kind of imaginary closeness that we get through observation. In the 19 fifties, two psychologists, richard wall and donald horton, observed that, you know
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