(PatPod) 72. Oh, to be a youth, loitering in a mall
The gang chats about third spaces, Melissa fan-girls over frozen yogurt, Taha makes his case for in-person connections, and Sabrina casually defends her love for digital hangouts.
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Sabrina’s preference for mediating friendships mirrors my own. You can have healthy, happy relationships without needing to breath the same air together. 😅 There’s a whole community of us out here! We’re the ones who became best friends over BBSes, having never seen or heard each other. I am looking forward to the day when she joins us. 🤗
Please explain deleting the AI art video, I really enjoyed it and appreciated that Sabrina acknowledged her unpopular, researched opinion. I’m genuinely not trying to kiss ass, I just don’t understand why the video was removed
Ahhhh I wish this is answered, I had saved it in my Watch Later and never got the chance to 🥲
You might enjoy reading "Living in the World... of Warcraft", which is sort of about how virtual spaces become real when you do stuff in them with other people. One of my favorite quotes is from that article: "Worlds become real when people care about them; not when they look like our own."
Great conversation, definitely on the same page as Melissa and Taha. If I couldn't hangout in person with my friends I'd go crazy lol. I think the pandemic was a great example of that, that was very isolating even though we did play video games and things like that
I really enjoyed this conversation!