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Comment by reddalo

18 hours ago

>how exactly does this kind of individual conversation actually help me?

It doesn't. It just helps the speaker.

That makes me think—why do I enjoy conversations with friends then? What's really the difference between a friend and a stranger? Friends annoy me too, maybe even more often than strangers do.

  • Your friends are hopefully somewhat invested in you for a non-transactional reason, and have proven to be a non-threat. There's no guarantees with a stranger.

What a bizarre perspective. Have you never gotten any personal value out of a single conversation in your entire life? Have you never made a friend? I don't understand this "all conversations are bad and useless" nonsense. What on earth do you think you're doing on social media?

  • I'm not saying that all conversations are bad. I'm just talking about the one hour one-sided conversations described in the article.