I’m never online in my head. I experience myself in the room even when I’m on a screen.
I noticed in the 2010s that I’d been “storing my ego” online somewhat, as I put it, just enough that I realized it wasn’t working well for me, and the research being published at the time was bearing that out as well.
I used to speculate about what happens when most people start picturing various internet avatar pics when they think of a person they know, which did happened in the early days of the internet on message boards and so forth, but usually with strangers. What was it going to do to our brains if we started doing that with most everyone else?
By a certain point, I’d concluded that it would probably tend to make us feel vaguely anxious.
So I reoriented my perspective on the internet so that I was using it as a tool to do various things I wanted to accomplish rather than some kind of place to store my ego.
I really enjoy it.
──── by Lync Dalton ────
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