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How social media can make real reunions feel awkward

My old college friends seem so happy in their posts but when we actually meet up there's this weird distance like we're all strangers performing familiarity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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When we know each other's highlights but not their depths, we become familiar strangers unable to find our way back to genuine encounter.

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