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Is it the async part that's a problem? Or is it that chilling with besties is all we ever really wanted?

I was pretty happy with Facebook in 2007 when it was posting pictures and making stupid jokes with my actual friends (not the whole world and whatever is trending).

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Async has a lot of benefits, but I think if 10x as much of the content we engage with asynchronously was originally live interaction between people we have a personal bond with (or at least can recognize the humanity in from a distance), we would notice a positive difference and want the internet to be more like that.

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