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First-year Phillip Bartecki reported Tuesday that the low-quality Facebook notifications he receives no longer lift his spirits the way they used to. <\/p>\n
\u201cBirthday notifications from old high-school acquaintances and invitations to events I won\u2019t go to just don\u2019t do it for me any more,\u201d said Phillip, who now receives more alerts than he ever has in the past. These alerts, Bartecki claims, have never been more hollow and meaningless. <\/p>\n
\u201cI used to like getting alerts from Facebook; it\u2019s always nice feeling the vibration in your pocket, taking out your phone, and seeing a brightly colored red circle, reminding you that you matter in someone else\u2019s life,” he said. Phillip claimed he\u2019d even tried lowering his standards by getting excited about comments on posts he\u2019d liked\u2014but nothing worked. <\/p>\n
Lisa Montoban, a University of Chicago sociologist, believes there is a scientific explanation for what Phillip is experiencing. \u201cHe is just now becoming aware of the fact that all social media is predicated on the notion that other people give two shits; if he doesn’t care about what other people are doing, that means they feel the same way about him.\u201d <\/p>\n
At press time, The Dealer <\/i>can confirm that Bartecki is no longer checking his phone right away when it goes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Dan Lastres March 1, 2015 First-year Phillip Bartecki reported Tuesday that the low-quality Facebook notifications he receives no longer lift his spirits the way they used to. \u201cBirthday notifications from old high-school acquaintances and invitations to events I won\u2019t go to just don\u2019t do it for me any more,\u201d said Phillip, who now receives more alerts than he ever has in the past. These alerts, Bartecki claims, have never been more hollow and meaningless. \u201cI used to like getting alerts from Facebook; it\u2019s always nice feeling the vibration in your pocket, taking out your phone, and seeing a brightly colored red circle, reminding you that you matter in someone else\u2019s life,” he said. Phillip claimed he\u2019d even tried lowering his standards by getting excited about comments on posts he\u2019d liked\u2014but nothing worked. Lisa Montoban, a University of Chicago sociologist, believes there is a scientific explanation for what Phillip is experiencing. \u201cHe is just now becoming aware of the fact that all social media is predicated on the notion that other people give two shits; if he doesn’t care about what other people are doing, that means they feel the same way about him.\u201d At press time, The Dealer can confirm that Bartecki is no longer checking his phone right away when it goes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}