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The Online Isolation Death Spiral

  • People going through difficult situations withdraw into their homes and spend more time on the internet.
  • The internet is not reality, it is a representation of reality that responds to and shapeshifts to what the user wants. The algorithm is a moving mirror.
  • When you don’t speak to people you forget how to speak, how to be. It all becomes foreign.
  • You become desocialised which makes it harder to reconnect with people which leads to more isolation.