I get wanting to experience The Group Event in person. I really do. But when you say the *only* way to really experience things is live and in person, my agoraphobic ass is done.

I've been sitting here thinking about the relief it is to witness an event on a screen instead of doing the 1000 things it takes me to get through a live event. Don't tell me I would have enjoyed it better live. I wouldn't have.

There are so many people in this world, through circumstance or preference, who view things at a remove from Live and in Person. It is ok to feel its lack for yourself, but don't tell me *we* aren't living.

Seeing things live and in person is a different experience, not an objectively better one.

The same goes for Twitter and Discord and whatever app connects you. For some of us (certainly for me, esp. when I was housebound), that *is* the main avenue of broad social connection.

I can't flippantly call sites like this a cesspool, any more than you can tell your favorite coffee shop to fuck off. Because when y'all go back to your outside jobs, I'll still be here.

And look, I know these tweets won't resonate with most people right now. They aren't your experience. You want what you need and miss. That's fine.

I'm just saying some folks don't seek the Live In-Person Event and live fine and creative lives without it.

I'm in the middle, perhaps. I dislike agoraphobia. I fight it every day. But the reason I get to fight it AND still have a social life is because of a screen.