In a “normal” office type job you have meetings, all hands events, off sites, corridor and break room encounters, canteen discussions. For many anons, it has been years eked out online, working in conditions that are abnormal for humans.
This last week I only opened my laptop for ten minutes to do one errand, and It wasn’t missed. I am finding it getting harder to force myself to answer emails. We naturally limit our conversational load in person… one at a time, wait your turn, don’t interrupt.
The day the normies need our support will be a relief on many levels, not least the resumption of normal face to face relating. Being in the digital realm too much, at least for me, ends up as a kind of aversion therapy. The information addict’s fix is like normalising porn on screen while saying in person sex is weird…
Will we even want to give social media our prime focus five or ten years from now?
I sure hope not. I pray that a silver lining in all of this is that we recognize our need for one another on a more personal level…we should not let screens seperate us indefinitely.
