kristin’s Reviews > Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other > Status Update

"My bulimia has made me better at giving blowjobs."

Excuse me??? How? Is your gag reflex not overactive now?

"I began with an interest in 'hack and slay,' but then I stayed to chat."

I get "back in my day!" vibes from this author at times. Like... you're not the main character. People in airports and coffee shops and wherever are not there to entertain you with conversation on demand. Let them read their books, listen to music, or whatever.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

!!!

by the late 1990s, children were presented with digital "creatures" that made demands for attention

Me setting an alarm for 3am to feed my tamagotchi. 😂

He told me that RL "is just one more window." And, he added, "it's not usually my best one."

Oof.