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Where we had once been free to be ourselves online, we were now chained to ourselves online, and this made us self-conscious.
Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them.
I worry that all this self-monitoring has made me, as I wrote in 2004, too conscious of what “Jia� would do in this situation—that I’m in danger of becoming a “character to myself.�
Knowing that I was seen got rid of my desire to see myself, to analyze myself as a character.
