What I’ve come to accept (and this is both good and bad, but mostly bad) is that—for the rest of my life—I will never not instantaneously know about any marginally insane event. There’s just no way to avoid the information. The world is too mediated and interpersonal relationships are too connected. Since most adult relationships are now based around new technologies,29 it’s almost like there’s a built-in responsibility to immediately distribute whatever interesting information we acquire. People constantly complain about Facebook, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed them; they’re
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