Optional,
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@clive, I ran across your quote in Taylor Lorenz' book Extremely Online. Are you still captivated by your friends' sandwich choices or has the spell worn off?

... thousands of dots making a pointillis painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friends would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating." One Twitter user described the experience as" a type of E.S.P."—something that we wouldn't have known was possible, let alone desirable, before the dawn of Twitter. "It's like I can distantly read everyone's mind," the user told Thompson. "I love that. I feel like I'm getting to something raw about my friends. It's like I've got this heads-up display for them."

clive,
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@Optional

I still am!

I still find that one of my chief joys in social media is in developing a sense of what the people I follow are thinking about, caring about, reading, seeing, etc

It's why I don't much follow famous people / celebrities, or use social media to keep up with news or breaking events

That's not what I'm here for

Optional,
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@clive
When I read the quote I took it very literally: Following IRL friends and reading their super-banal status updates like their sandwich choice.
I don't care for that.
But your rephrasing here is very much what I also like. Widening "friends" to mean "non-celebs" and upping the bar for content from complete banality to thoughts, cares, experiences.

clive,
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@Optional

Heh yeah — I don’t really need a constant drumbeat of sandwiches

I like following people who share what they’re reading, seeing, thinking, doing

The odd sandwich isn’t bad 🍞 lol

But what I like seeing and following is the fabric of thought

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