“Catfish” demonstrates that online intimacy is about quantity, not quality. Back in 2007, Leisa Reichelt, the head of user…

“Catfish” demonstrates that online intimacy is about quantity, not quality. Back in 2007, Leisa Reichelt, the head of user research at Government Digital Services in the U.K., defined ambient intimacy as “being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible.”

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