the SNL sketch this weekend where FBI keeps showing up arresting friends at a dinner party for their role in the Capitol riot revealed some truths: A LOT of people are living 2 lives - their irl lives, and a radicalized online life. And eventually the latter affects the former
When the internet was really just becoming popular it was fun to have a completely different online anonymous persona. It was fantasy. With social media amplifying those fantasies, perceptions between real life & fantasy are blurring - and fewer people are afraid of who knows.
Part of that is because logging off during early internet meant something. You stopped being connected. Now the phone is always on, connected, and an extension of our bodies.
And I guess effectively an extension of our minds
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