Personal Best

How to stop texting like a robot

Julia struggles flirting over text messages and it’s hampering her love life. Is it possible to communicate your authentic self via text?
Is it possible to communicate your authentic self via text? (Jesse Louttit/CBC)

"I think that there is definitely an element of like, can I exist in today's society?" — Julia

Julia struggles flirting over text messages and it's hampering her love life.  Is it possible to communicate your authentic self via text, or are you doomed to prop up your performative cyber husk dancing on a touch screen forever?  

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