>>735376Assuming you are being satirical and not genuinely that deeply individualist, I'll note:
It is weird how the tech bourgeois tricked people–even proles, who obviously don't have time to be sociable locally–into not taking long distance friends seriously. Like it's not a new concept, people had friends far enough away to mail each other letters and such, but somehow there's this insistance that people
should be alienated enough that making a friend online is the supposedly consumption of an alternative to a "legitimate" ideal, and when people see through that spook it's deemed "cringe" as a second resort to recover the indoctrination process.
My first guess as to what the point is, is to make people see it as $platform providing them the stimulus of friendship and that only $platform can facilitate that, while keeping their confidence of their ability to make friends low by eroding their confidence of the legitimacy of their existing examples, but that doesn't work: people bail from one site to another all the time, to the point where there's sites like LinkTree and Carrd for listing sites your friends can find you in case they find themselves bailing from any given number of them. People treat sites like Discord and Tumblr as bunkers rather than platforms in their own right. Eventually people make personal websites and email their friends that have taken the same measures. Point being these friendships are very obviously detached from the platform, meaning people know the platform is merely a communication vehicle.
Then again, centralized social media is dying off, so maybe that sharade worked for a while, and now that people see through the "friend vs. e-friend" false dichotomy they're just going into AI and crypto since these platforms can't sustain themselves without the sharade.