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Why Your Online Identity Feels More Real Than Your Offline Self

I realize I have become a completely different person online than I am in real life and I do not know which version of me is actually real anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The malleability of digital identity creates an existential crisis about which version of ourselves represents our authentic being.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Digital Life & Online Privacy?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.