Digital Intimacy

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• knowing when your friend is out of the house, because their phone capitalises their messages
• noticing they’re down because that was the wrong emoticon
• lol vs lmao vs hahaha vs ahaha
• subtly wrapping your schedule around the edges of timezones on the other side of the world
• conversations that play out over a week because you’re both perpetually idle but you want to know how they’re doing
• not being able to wake up for an alarm, but leaping halfway across the house for the message alert you’ve been waiting for

• talking to the same person about different topics in three conversations simultaneously
• knowing when your friends have been spending time together because they start to type alike 
• watching them start and stop typing over and over and not interrupting, because this must be important

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