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The article discusses how San Francisco's tech social scene is now dominated by people who are "terminally online." It explores how relationships and trust are formed through mutual connections on platforms like X, shifting the dynamics of in-person events and interactions.
- Social access in SF's tech scene now runs through mutual connections on X rather than traditional networking events or introductions.
- Event invites increasingly flow through private group chats and platforms like Partiful, favoring those who are already plugged in online.
- Because attendees already know each other's online personas beforehand, in-person gatherings (often in living rooms, not venues) skip small talk and alcohol-driven icebreakers for direct, substantive conversation.
- The New Media Fellowship exemplifies this model, using an X group chat instead of nametags/icebreakers to build rapport before meeting face-to-face, raising the question of whether this "terminally online" social structure will spread beyond SF.
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