How do social media affect interpersonal relationships? Adopting a Strawsonian framework, I argue that social media make us more likely to adopt the objective attitude towards persons. Technologically mediated communication tends to inhibit interpersonal emotions and other reactive attitudes. This is due to a relative lack of the social cues that typically enable us to read minds and react to them. Adopting the objective attitude can be harmful for two reasons. First, it tends to undermine the basis of interpersonal relationships. In particular, I argue that friendship is a relationship between persons that requires the participant stance. Second, it is a morally risky attitude that makes us more likely to treat persons in problematic, thing-like ways. Some philosophers have rightly urged that social media are compatible with virtuous, Aristotelian friendship. Notwithstanding, I argue that the harms associated with the objective attitude are more pressing than they might appear if we restrict our focus to relatively virtuous people with the social competence to flourish in morally risky online environments.

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社交媒体，人际关系和客观态度

社交媒体如何影响人际关系？我认为采用Strawsonian框架，社交媒体使我们更有可能采取对人的客观态度。技术介导的交流倾向于抑制人际情感和其他反应性态度。这是由于相对缺乏社交线索，这些线索通常使我们能够阅读思想并对之做出反应。采取客观态度可能有害，这有两个原因。首先，它倾向于破坏人际关系的基础。我特别指出，友谊是需要参与者立场的人与人之间的关系。其次，这是一种道德风险态度，使我们更有可能以有问题的，类似事情的方式对待人。一些哲学家正确地敦促社交媒体与道德，亚里士多德的友谊。尽管如此，我认为与客观态度相关的危害比如果将我们的注意力集中在具有社会能力在道德风险较高的在线环境中蓬勃发展的相对有道德的人身上，所带来的危害要更大。