"As my participation increases, I invariably suffer another psychic downside of social networking: remorse. The more I upload the details of my existence, even in the form of random observations and casual location updates, the more I worry about giving away too much. It’s one thing to share intimacies person- to-person. But with a community? Creepy."
— Really interesting article about “avatar anxiety,” an emerging psychosis in where, “one’s self-consciousness about one’s online self amplifies one’s self-consciousness about one’s actual self.” Found by roamin: Sharing is Creepy.
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Really interesting article...“avatar anxiety,” an emerging psychosis
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…The only way to maintain an online identity with any semblence of integrity is to delve deeply into Information Theory.
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