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Loneliness is what the internet and social media claim to alleviate, though they often have the opposite effect. Communion can be hard to find, not because we arenāt occupying the same physical space but because we arenāt occupying the same mental plane: we donāt read the same news; we donāt even revel in the same memes. Our phones and computers deliver unto each of us a personalizedāor rather, algorithm-realizedādistillation of headlines, anecdotes, jokes, and photographs. Even the ads we scroll past are not the same as our neighborās: a pair of boots has followed me from site to site for weeks. We call this endless, immaterial material a feed, though thereās little sustenance to be found.
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction