I tried to book and appointment with my eye doctor, I’d been putting off making appointments getting lazy, I need to schedule a dental cleaning as well. I desperately needed more contacts and the appointments were booking out to August or later. Turns out the website I get contacts from can do an eye exam $20 using my phone camera! Within and hour and without leaving the house my rx was renewed for two more years and my new supply of contacts were shipping to my front door in a few days they would arrive (I went with free shipping or they would be here even sooner)
During the pandemic we were introduced to contactless…everything, so we no longer had to sign for anything or leave our homes. Everything is digital we don’t develop film, we don’t cash checks or even receive physical checks most of the time. We get books, music, movies, pictures and money delivered wireless to us wherever we are. This is an introverts dream, or in my case an adhd dream, I don’t have to remember to fill my rx only when someone is there to answer the phone I can do it on my chart from my phone when I think of it at 3 am! While all this is progress, time saving and efficient, is it healthy?
Around Christmas 2025 I started a new X account called devoted mommy 72 a play on my devoted friend 72. I was thinking it may appeal to those who like the whole stepmom thing. What I found was that yes I was getting a lot of subscribers on my only fans for those who are interested in the stepmom vibe but the bigger take away was people wanted connection. If you’re on social media these days, you see a lot of fake posts you see entire accounts that are AI generated without a real human being part of it at all. I read an article today about a student who put himself through college by creating a blonde conservative woman who appeal to wealthy conservative men. The account was incredibly successful and had social media and even an only fans, but the woman never existed. It was a teenage guy. Stories like this give us pause, we all want to believe the person we’re talking to is a real person. We want them to be the person we think we are talking to, but beyond that we now have to verify if they’re even a person at all or if some program is answering us and interacting with us!
So what I accidentally discovered was the people are longing for connection. They’re longing for authentic real human beings to interact with. The common phrase for this style of interaction is called “Hope core”. Post pandemic. The original host of Blue’s Clues Steve Burns created an account where he checked in with all of us to see if we were doing OK because there was a lot going on. His account went viral people were longing for that authentic encouragement coming from someone they could trust Steve from Blue’s Clues,adults now ,that didn’t stop us from being comforted by Steve. He’s real. He’s someone we can trust.
When I decided in January to work from home full-time, I started looking at all of the accounts. I started looking at all the trends and the viral videos I looked at the people who are using AI agencies, chat, bots, etc., for their online accounts. What I quickly discovered was that I was already doing what people wanted. I was already giving them the authentic connection. I just needed to do more of it. So I started making a lot of YouTube videos, letting people know that their messages would always be answered by me that I would never hire an agency. It would never be a chat bot or a paid chat or talking to them and I would never share what they told me with other people. In short, they can trust me. I’m here I’m real and I’m not going anywhere.
Thank you for listening.đź’‹
Patsy
First off, that is such a pretty picture of you. I have always loved that sweater and how it looks on you with your long hair and those awesome dangly earringsđź’–đź’–
I’ve said in the past that I would love to go back to certain times in the past for the music, the attitudes and all the fun things we did, and just the simplicity of it, but only to visit. I have become addicted to all of the current conveniences and ease of getting things without having to see or talk to anyone if I don’t want, but in my personal live I still NEED and want and crave real connection. I found out just how much when I moved out here with no friends around and what happened taking away my ability to make new ones how I used to. I started to feel hollow and like I would leave this world and no ones outside my family would even know, let alone care, and that is a very empty feeling.
We all NEED real connection, and I think anyone who taps into that and does their best to provide it will find a receptive base that will grow. The only problem I wonder about is when they grow to a point where they can’t keep up with it by themselves anymore. Does the growth have to be capped at a certain point so the very element that brought success doesn’t suffer?
Bottom line is we need more people smart enough like you to recognize that need to see it and who has the gift for it like you do to provide it and make a very good living at it.