America Offline

Posted on AllSides May 21st, 2021
From The Left
Technology, Social Media, Internet
ANALYSIS

We’ve just lived through the most online period in history. What comes next?

My most intimate relationship of 2020 was with the internet. I did my job online, and talked to my friends online, and streamed hundreds of hours of TV that I’d already seen online, just to fill my empty apartment with human sounds. I used the internet to put scary Instagram filters on my face, and join a mutual-aid Slack group, and reflexively refresh the coronavirus case count in my zip code, and attend my cousin’s wedding, and blog about a parasocial relationship...

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/05/life-returns-normal-great-offlining-may-begin/618936/

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