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Becky's avatar

I also find myself staying away from online “communities” to spend time with the actual people in my life. Having said that, it remains on my bucket list to meet you in person some day, and I always look forward to your posts and the podcast conversations.

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Yes! I've felt for a long time very icky about the way "community" is tossed around so lightly. Not because I don't believe that it's possible online, but because it diminishes what community is in reality and what it is meant to be as the ideal. With so much online and how gross the meta verse sounds, people are genuinely going to forget or have no first hand experience of genuine community in real life. Genuine community that involves being around people whom you do not 100% agree and still getting along! Genuine community that involves annoying work and time commitments that scrolling never requires of us! Kind of like so many teenagers don't really speak to each other when they hang out - they're just all on their phones snap chatting each other while being in the same room! I could diatribe about this for a long time, but I think so much of what you're saying is so very true in lived experience and that the consequences to our humanity if we keep thinking all this is fine is very disturbing.

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