The Illusion of Connection 🪦

Why Your 500 ‘Friends’ Don’t Give a Shit About You

We’re all so connected these days, aren’t we? Hundreds, maybe thousands, of “friends” at our fingertips. We share our carefully curated lives, our witty observations, our deepest fears (carefully filtered for maximum engagement, of course). We’re drowning in likes, comments, and virtual validations.

And yet, you can’t remember the last time you had a real, meaningful conversation with any of them, can you?

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We’ve become masters of the performance of connection. We broadcast our joys and sorrows to the digital void, hoping someone, anyone, will see us, hear us, validate our existence with a double-tap or a heart emoji. We mistake acquaintances for intimates, followers for friends, and the fleeting dopamine rush of a notification for genuine human connection. But our digital space has become filled to the brim of surface level interactions and quick to digest information, but slow to create connection.

But let’s be brutally honest: most of those 500 “friends” don’t give a shit about you. They’re not checking in when you’re going through a tough time. They’re not celebrating your wins with genuine enthusiasm. They’re scrolling past your carefully crafted cries for help, maybe tossing a pity like your way before moving on to the next post…