Friendship and Alienation in the Digital Age
5 min readMar 14, 2018
As our sphere of personal privacy collapses, and we are intruded upon by technology in the most intimate ways, the human spirit necessarily retreats into itself. People find repose somewhere inside the skin, rather than without. A “person” used to be something singular in existence and presence. Letter writing and phone calling were the only other alternatives to live interaction. The digital age has…
