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Technology is eroding our humanity.

i'm more social now due to nostr 🤔

it's how you use technology. if you use it to help you then great. you use it or it use you. Either way, you are right.

that's great to hear. Do you meet people offline that you meet online? Like meet ups or video call meet up?

not really, although i didn't do that before eider

And what's stopping you? genuinely curious ☺️

i'm a relatively private person, also i don't really know who on nostr would like to meet up with me anyway 😹

it makes sense. So I take it you have not been into the conferences of nostr yet? Would love to go one day ☺️ I'd be pleased to meet people in f2f in #nostr conferences when location and schedule permits 🙏

You would have to be a bit older to understand what I’m talking about. What life was like before cell phones and the internet, when people were forced to engage with another human being, in person, not through a text.

I can relate. I grew up playing outside, no tech esp in developing country before migrating to the UK. ☺️

I know I’m right, lol. I’m old enough to remember what life was like before cell phones and the internet. When people don’t engage in person, the engagements you do have become less personal, you can’t form a bond with someone through a text. Not trying to be that guy, but I see what technology is doing to society and for all the good it is doing, it is doing just as much, if not more, damage to our ability to relate to another human being. As an example, do I like not having to throw on my shoes, scrape the snow off the car, shovel out the driveway, just so I could head down to blockbuster to find out they are all out of the movie I wanted to grab? Hell yes. But I also miss the engagements I used to have with other people, talking about what movie you want to watch, what do you/they recommend. Actual conversations with people. When you put a piece of technology between you and someone else, you begin to lose the bond that brought you together in the first place. Hell, people don’t even talk on the phone anymore, it’s all texts.

your perception is how you shape your world. If you say yes, then it is. if you say no then no. Either way, you are right.

Undivided attention, that final frontier. i remember you mentioning Egypt, so you know how rare real connection can be. The canvas holds conversations too, pixel by pixel, between sips of coffee.