08/01/2022
The internet is the biggest emotion disrupter of our time. It wasn’t long ago that we muddled through with a stray ;-) or two but now we have an entire pantheon of emojis, memes, and gifs to tinge our reactions with subtle moods. We know how to evoke empathy for extremely specific feelings with TFW (that feeling when), exclaim our solidarity with This^ and maintain dating-app relationships with an artful combination of 🙈 and 😍
This emotional disruption has brought its fair share of new challenges too. Psychologists tell us that tech-obsessed teens lack empathy. Loneliness, often tied to the overuse of screens, is at epidemic levels. Netflix documentaries tell us that outrage, the most viral emotion on social media, is driving us further apart.
Instead of raging against the machines, I think we can learn to expand our emotional range. Technology has the capacity to enrich our emotional lives. That’s what Feels Guide is all about.
We're now on Medium covering the following topics related to internet emotion:
*New feelings; definitions and descriptions of all the new emotional behaviors, motivators, mental health conditions, and feelings.
*Feeling machines; technology that tries to detect, guess, measure, communicate, influence, or adapt to human emotion.
*Design for [emotion], emotional design guides for more complicated feelings like nostalgia or schadenfreude.
https://medium.com/feels-guide
A weekly blog about how emotion and tech mingle and morph.
