Virtual empathy

How many times have you replied with boosting comments to your social media connections when they posted that they were not feeling good? It is on peoples’ nature to empathize other people and try to comfort them emotionally.

As social media continue to grow in popularity and also with the advent of smart devices that provide us a great variety of features to express our feelings, like the emoticons, we are able to practice our virtual empathy in many different ways! But have these online reactions the same effect with a real world hug or an encouraging face to face comment?

 

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