This article is about communities; the real ones. I recognise the importance of communities and at the same time I have often felt that I have a limited and biased experience with them, leaving me feeling like an outsider looking in. The concept of Community is vast, centred on the human beings through and around which it’s formed.
A wonderful reminder to Generations who grew up with social media as their friend. I grew up forced to communicate face to face and voice to voice. I fear for new gens who have been taught that you can get away with an emoji as an answer and that actual friends are the ones on social media. Neither of these are true. I wonder about the states of relationships which, with every generation (since boomer), become more fractured and superficial- a fantasy. We all know we can fantasise a relationship into being. It doesn’t make it real.
A wonderful reminder to Generations who grew up with social media as their friend. I grew up forced to communicate face to face and voice to voice. I fear for new gens who have been taught that you can get away with an emoji as an answer and that actual friends are the ones on social media. Neither of these are true. I wonder about the states of relationships which, with every generation (since boomer), become more fractured and superficial- a fantasy. We all know we can fantasise a relationship into being. It doesn’t make it real.