[carterschonwald]

yeah shared “did you this weeks X” is lame, but it was social glue for a long time.

[munificent]

I think about this all the time.

The trend towards personalization in media and software comes at the cost of a loss of a shared social experience we can use to relate to each other.

[iammjm]

yeah but do we really need some trash reality-TV for a "shared social experience"? most of TV's programming was garbage anyway and contributed to a lot of what was/is wrong with the society