Rather than thinking of the web and social media as merely neutral tools that merely do whatever users ask of them, it is better to think of them as kinds of spaces that are continually shaping us to think, feel, communicate, and live in certain ways. In other words, the social internet is a liturgical environment. James K. A. Smith has written powerfully about the effect that certain habits and environments can have on our desires.9 As we will see later on, even our most allegedly “nonreligious” spaces are deeply spiritual. They tell us a story about the good life: what it is, and how we can
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