Thread by @simpolism

@moodprobiotic @browserdotsys TOO REAL: "electronic communities encourage participation in fragmented, mostly silent, microgroups who are primarily engaged in dialogues of self-congratulation. in other words, most people lurk; and the ones who post, are pleased with themselves."

@moodprobiotic @browserdotsys "hysterical identification is a mental device that enables one person to take on the sufferings of a group of persons... in our society, many decisions about who a person is, are made through the device of hysterical identification"

@moodprobiotic @browserdotsys "many times in cyberspace, i felt it necessary to say that i was human. once, i was told that i existed primarily as a voice in somebody’s head... but that is the way that i am. i resist being boxed and inventoried"

Interesting how this... doesn't exist for ppl my age/like me.

@moodprobiotic @browserdotsys Instead of insistence on internet-self = irl-self, we construct internet-selves for the sole purposes of being inventoried.

In this way, we allow online corporations to commoditize us. But, if our online presence is not our "true" self, then what is really being commoditized?