Did you know we’ve collectively created new emotions?

Well, maybe not new, but our emotions have begun to map in different ways.

How? Why?

The Internet.

Have you ever felt …

• A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled.
• A sudden and irrational rage in response to reading an ‘@-reply’ on Twitter.
• The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of time without purpose, characterized by a blurry, formless anxiety undercut with something hard like desperation.
• The car collision of appetite and discomfort one feels simultaneously when using the internet to seek and consume images or information that may be considered unseemly or inappropriate.
• The sense of fatigue and disconnect one experiences after emitting a massive stream of content only to hit some kind of ‘wall’ and forget and/or abandon the entire thing.

You can read a more in-depth look on each of these emotions on the Thought Catalog, in the meantime, check out how this jives with our current/prior emotion ‘map’:

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It’s interesting to see how these emotions have bridged between feelings that were formally never connected.

The Internet, and technology in general, has a profound effect on us collectively and I’m not sure we fully comprehend it’s longterm effects on us.

Thoughts?

[via Thought Catalog & Visually]