i have been having a busy couple weeks cause my brothers been visiting and ive been trying to balance hangout time and drawing and oh!! thats hard!!!
it's weird because i've been thinking about the nature of social media and the kind of impersonal connections it fosters, and how my best relationships with people are all in group chat and 1 on 1 chat settings. what's the point of social media? the connections are so flimsy... but they're not that way to everyone? maybe it's that I'm not in a position where I feel comfortable getting close via social media? too much vulnerability in the open? i dunno
@glip I think both kinds of connections are useful. You don't have to be bffs with everyone, sometimes you just wanna get a message out to a wide audience or have large scale conversations about stuff.
But it's also important to have close friends you can talk 1 on 1 with.
@grainloom it's hard for me because i feel like there's this undercurrent that a LOT of people push on others that you're SUPPOSED to only act in ways comfortable to every other person around you, and when your audience is 1000s of people, that gets extremely overwhelming to have sooo many people trying to force a bffs ideal on you
@glip
oh, yeah, i haven't considered that. i guess it's different if you are popular and stuff. although there have been people irl who wanted to be bffs with me even though i didn't really want to hang out with them and i'm not exactly popular or even sociable, so if you have 1000 followers then you are more likely to run into that kind of person.
hmm. if i had that problem i'd probably make a new social media acc under a pseudonym