Status Updates From Alone Together: Why We Expe...

Young people losing inclinations for human connection, empathy. Don’t see the point in considering the experiences and feelings of others

Purpose driven, people as tools/means of achieving goals

Kids talking about parents being constantly on devices

Critique of calling online spaces communities. Language dilution

People sounding/writing like machines

Trusting safety in online comms… neglecting fact that it’s not safe and is forever

Avoidance of showing emotion in front of others (e.g. death of friend). Avoid processing emotions in realtime

Narcissistic self requiring others to bolster the fragile self

Emotional regulation through texting (teenager texting example)

this book feels so weirdly invasive like this woman is just telling these things about these people i don’t want to know at breakneck speed…..girl leave them out of this

Second life… married man married ‘woman’ avatar (doesn’t want to think about how ‘she’ may be a man, thinks ‘she’ knows and loves his true self)

Elder care + robots :’(

“Easier to trust a robot than a human” :/

People risky, robots not risky concept again

My real baby… getting out sadistic impulses. Yikes

Striking the belief that the robot companions won’t cause harm

Robot relationship viewed by some as No risk relationship

Analogy of anti robot human relationships to anti gay, reminiscent of anti sex denialism as akin to homophobia

Levy. Feel good =\= actually good for you

Inauthentic as new aesthetic
Insecurity in social relations driving robot ‘relationships’