HN is (very deliberately) my only social media other than what my friends send me.
I am not saying anything you don't already know by saying that parasocial relationships are so evil because they get the time that formerly would have gone into your real human relationships but don't give you anywhere near the payoff.
In many ways the genie is out of the bottle/Pandora's box is open but the attention economy might just be the most insidious technology ever invented.
HN is (very deliberately) my only social media other than what my friends send me.
I am not saying anything you don't already know by saying that parasocial relationships are so evil because they get the time that formerly would have gone into your real human relationships but don't give you anywhere near the payoff.
In many ways the genie is out of the bottle/Pandora's box is open but the attention economy might just be the most insidious technology ever invented.
How empty are these people attacking the author?