The Computer Toucher Disease
I recently solidified a long-term theory of mine. I call it Computer Toucher Disease, and it holds back a massive portion of young men raised with the internet and our broader audience.
Instead of actual social interaction, you get all or the majority of your interaction through social media, forums, and multiplayer video games. Moreover, you expose yourself to an endless series of ideas with no real original thought about who you are as a person. You are a mosaic of others' ideas, or worse, memes (short quippy nonsense).
Let's be clear - moderate use of these platforms is no issue. Computer touchers rely on those platforms for BOTH quasi-social interaction and reinforcement of their false sense of self.
But when you go try to be that person who exists in your head, you're socially off-putting, silent, or anxiety ridden. Worse, you might not go out at all for fear of disrupting your self image.
Computer touchers develop either gigantic egos or horrific anxiety. Oddly, sometimes both! We will get into comorbidities later.
