via Shweta.
Maintaining an extended simulacrum of reality is hard when mediated through today’s state of the art video-conferencing technology:
Even some people whose values still align with those of their friends have found their relationships suffering during the pandemic.
The reason for their drift is not rooted in ideological differences, but rather distance.
While video calls over Zoom or Facetime have helped, many have said that after spending most of the year staring at a screen, they’ve had enough.
– The pandemic has destroyed friendships and divided families
Amidst the talk of work forever being altered by the pandemic and of the dawn of the remote work age, it’s worth acknowledging that the relationships built in the real world are going to be tough to maintain through screens and phone calls. That the relationships formed in the remote world are likely to be different – not necessarily better or worse, but different – from those in the real world.