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comment by Cumol
Cumol  ·  3949 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Empathy Vacuum

I was wondering if I would buy such an app or not. Then I thought about the last few months.

I was busy writing my thesis, preparing for my disputation, doing this and that... How much time did I spend talking to my family, friends, loved ones? To be honest... not much.

It is scary to think about the need of a mechanical system to remind us to talk to our loved ones. But actually, it is better than what we have been doing till now.

I will try to explain. In your day-to-day life, you (me at least) sometimes have a thought that goes like this:

    "Oh, how is Lisa doing? I wonder how her Psychology studies have been going... I should write her a message"

And then you forget about it and do something else and then 3 weeks have passed and you have done nothing. You have the same thought and feel bad that you didn't do it yet.

If I understood this app correctly, it just hands us the tools or does the first step to something that we intended in doing anyway, which is writing a message to Lisa.

I will try it out, maybe it might help. If not, I will try something else :)