The background noise that those social interactions constitute is valuable and important of itself. Bonded relationships are important, but it's a separate matter entirely. Otherwise relationships lived out over the internet would be equal and interchangeable with those lived out in person. It wouldn't matter if you talked to someone face-to-face or over email. The human experience shouldn't be picked apart piece meal with overrationalization and naive maximalism.

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moomoo11 5 days ago | parent [-]

Why not go straight to the movie and actually connect with people there?

I don’t get it. You like having middlemen? lol

	▲	ux266478 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that it's not about connection in the slightest. There's more to community than friendship. > You like having middlemen? Consider this, there still has to be someone to maintain that machine. What's the point then, exactly, except to pretend like the people around us don't exist? And just because they're not the closest people to us? I'm afraid I don't see the upside, actually.