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> us to the whole of someone else.

I think this hits on a critical aspect of cyberspace's impact but phrased in a new way for me.

My view has been that it allows individuals to split their personalties and actions into discrete entities based on a blend of the account/platform/information environment and relative cause the account/platform exists in support of.

But another way to look at it is what you've said - the whole person comes out through the various personalities they have online.

There is a niche but famous sci-fi book called True Names* about a similar idea: people have their true name in real life, and a digital nym that's just as valid per the impact of the nym's existence as the name. Operating the balance, and making a choice which to embrace (name vs. nym) is the big question.

The novella was written prior to cloud computing and twitter/reddit/VR, and reading it now with all that tech in place is really something.



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