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A form of social estrangement specific to the digital age: the feeling that digital tools and platforms that were supposed to connect us instead separate us from ourselves, from others, and from meaningful experience. You scroll through endless feeds, yet feel more isolated; you communicate constantly, yet nothing feels real; you produce data and content, yet the platforms own it all. Digital alienation is the hollow ache of seeing your life mediated by algorithms, your friendships reduced to likes, and your labor harvested as a commodity. It’s the quiet despair of being unable to disconnect, yet never truly being present.
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