The Social Media Bubble - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review - 0 views
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I'd like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn't connecting us as much as we think it is. It's largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.
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Call it relationship inflation. Nominally, you have a lot more relationships — but in reality, few, if any, are actually valuable.
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Thin relationships are the illusion of real relationships. Real relationships are patterns of mutual investment. I invest in you, you invest in me. Parents, kids, spouses — all are multiple digit investments, of time, money, knowledge, and attention. The "relationships" at the heart of the social bubble aren't real because they're not marked by mutual investment .
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