Sharing is Creepy

[riky]

Sharing is Creepy
      

A while back, I wrote about the affliction of avatar anxiety, in which one's self-consciousness about one's online self amplifies one's self-consciousness about one's actual self.

So far as I know, avatar anxiety has not yet been declared an actual illness by the American Psychiatric Association, but I have no doubt that it will eventually make the grade, particularly after reading a brief article by Steven Levy, called "The Burden of Twitter," in the new edition of Wired.

Levy says that he "adores" social networking but that at the same time he is consumed with guilt and remorse over the activities of his online self:

"It's like a psychographic version of strip poker---I'm disrobing, 140 characters at a time."

         

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