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When Grown-Ups Have Imaginary Friends

“Parasocial relationships” explain

why you think influencers are your pals.

NYT

May 5, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/
parenting/influencers-social-media-relationships.html

Ready Player One

Official Trailer 1    2017

READY PLAYER ONE

Video    Official Trailer 1 [HD]    2017

From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure

“Ready Player One,”

based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name,

which has become a worldwide phenomenon.

The film is set in 2045,

with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse.

But the people have found salvation in the OASIS,

an expansive virtual reality universe created

by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance).

When Halliday dies,

he leaves his immense fortune to the first person

to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS,

sparking a contest that grips the entire world.

When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)

decides to join the contest,

he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt

through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48

Her    Official Trailer 2

Her - Official Trailer 2

Video    Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros.    3 December 2013

Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros.

Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future,

"Her" follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man

who makes his living writing touching,

personal letters for other people.

Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship,

he becomes intrigued

with a new, advanced operating system,

which promises to be an intuitive entity

in its own right, individual to each user.

Upon initiating it,

he is delighted to meet "Samantha," a bright, female voice,

who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny.

As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own,

their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.

From the unique perspective

of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze

comes an original love story

that explores the evolving nature—and the risks—

of intimacy in the modern world.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6p6MfLBxc

online friendship        USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/10/
814164937/new-waves-asks-how-can-we-form-true-friendships-in-an-online-world

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/03/05/
real-relationships-in-a-digital-world

https://newrepublic.com/article/121183/
your-internet-friends-are-real-defense-online-intimacy - March 3, 2015

imaginary friends / parasocial relationships        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/
parenting/influencers-social-media-relationships.html

online relationship        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/14/
shopping.technology  

online-only relationship        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/sunday-review/romance-at-arms-length.html

film / movie > 'Her'

Written and directed by Spike Jonze - 2013 > NYT review        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/movies/her-directed-by-spike-jonze.html

Illustration: Jörn Kaspuhl

Modern sex:

Catherine Townsend logs on to the new revolution

The Independent

6 December 2008

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-industry/
modern-sex-catherine-townsend-logs-on-to-the-new-revolution-1050428.html 

online dating        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/
online-dating

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/22/
hook-up-apps-grindr-tinder-gay-straight-people-dating

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/27/
swipe-right-online-dating-profile-photos

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/
opinion/sunday/how-to-make-online-dating-work.html

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2013/sep/23/
online-dating-enough-is-enough

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/01/
online-dating-untangling-the-web

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/feb/01/
theobserver.theobserversuknewspages 

dating website / site        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/07/
stalking-harassment-online-dating-sites

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/07/
hoaxer-who-breaks-womens-hearts

dating site        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/12/275884140/
dating-sites-offer-chance-at-love-and-a-lesson-in-economics

social networking > dating app > Tinder

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/
tinder

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/tinder-while-i-taper/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/28/
tinder-romance-cliches-profile-pics 

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/23/tinder-shallowest-dating-app-ever

email flirtation

digital flirting        USA

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/digital-flirting-easy-to-do-and-to-get-caught/

Last Kiss

by John Lustig

GoComics

April 11, 2014

tablet > Child’s interactive TV

having conversations with imaginary characters

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/
technology/personaltech/from-toytalk-
a-tablet-that-lets-children-control-their-tv-viewing.html

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