Tag: relationships
All the articles with the tag "relationships".
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Attention I - The Risks
Winifred Gallagher warns that habitually splitting attention across games and messaging can leave young people without depth when harder work arrives, while hours in digital feeds also displace the sustained face-to-face time relationships need.
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SFP I: "Choices"
A relationship documentary frames mate choice as instinctual attraction filtered through fear of rejection—and argues sturdy self-worth collapses the second barrier so people lead with genuine draw rather than pre-emptive “no.”
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Narcissistic Illusion.
A first-person account traces fast-forward plans, shrinking text-only contact, and push-pull intimacy with someone who seemed ideal—ending in eroded trust, projected blame, and the ache of a bond that was never truly mutual, with warning signs catalogued at the close.
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The White Flag.
Twelve-year job exit without the next gig lined up—pairing acceptance with POW research on open-ended endurance and abandoning timeline fantasies that fed resentment.
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Questions.
Questions years of public writing against Turkle’s acting-out vs working-through—wondering when online introspection turns narcissistic performance and whether the norm now steals depth from offline confidants.
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Alone Together II: Self-Betrayal
Reflecting on Turkle’s Alone Together—the comfort of lifelong machines and flow—while asking when digital introspection becomes self-betrayal by dulling hunger for reciprocal human depth.