I've curated websites and social media content and all that kind of stuff in my past. And something that has always struck me as very peculiar is this idea of friendship, relationship or any degree of intimacy with a person or persons that you will never likely meet face to face. And I wanted to share a story real quick, right?
Because if you can uphold, like, a long distance relationship, like a digital penpal, you're not looking for the physical things from them. You're looking for more like mental stimulation, someone to engage in dialogue with, share stories with, play video games with, these are still valid relationships
It's weird because we did have that bond in that moment initially, but the time has gone by and it affected us differently, right? Or it lasted longer, or the impression we received of the other person or the things we talked about was different. And so we carry that differently forward. I don't know that that necessarily lessens the initial experience or even lessens our personal perspective on that quote unquote friendship or interaction or whatever language we want to use
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:05
I think what a lot of us fear is this catfishing culture where you're not sure who you're talking to and you want to get vulnerable and you want to go there, but sometimes you're not sure if that person is really there. One of the things I find interesting about this particular platform and talking with people and the friendship idea is that I don't have the same filters as I do in the real world. And I love that
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:52
We've all had these things that were manmade artificially to enhance our friendships. Letters. We've already done this, but now for the first time, we are able to do it at the speed of light. I post this. It took me it's taken me three minutes to post it, right, but you're going to hear this in seconds if you're actually on the app or not
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:16
Thank you for the question. I don't know what the other responses are. I wanted to respond without listening to the others. I just want to say that look, I am somebody who immersed myself in my career for about two decades after I graduated from college. And then I have been a full time mom. As swell through those 20 years plus some, I can tell you that I have lost all connections with people I knew from back in school and back in college
Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 4:34
The only way to get through it is to talk through it, to hear you share that experience that you had of isolation of this sort of estrangement from your friends and from family and things like that. And then to acknowledge a platform like Swell or Swell right, social media or a social media platform as one of the tools that you use to reestablish connection, is such a powerful, like I said, testimony to the possibility