If you concoct a convincing on-line meta-personality on the Net, then that personality really IS you. With so few things around nowadays to loan a person identity, the palette of identities you create for yourself in the vacuum of the Net---your menu of alternative "you's"---actually IS you. Or an isotope of you. Or a photocopy of you.
(Douglas Coupland, Microserfs)
If you concoct a convincing on-line meta-personality on the Net, then that personality really IS you. With so few things around nowadays to loan a person identity, the palette of identities you create for yourself in the vacuum of the Net---your m...