- Talking about the early internet, Stephen, Bijan says in āThere is No Usā:
It wasnāt all bad. It couldnāt be. It was a home for our first writing, our first art; the setting for some of our first private relationships; the place where you could try on new identities and work out who you really wereā¦ All this happened in the private space between our brains, our hands, and our machinesā¦
- The most striking of these is the ability to try on new identities. I canāt remember how many personalities, ages, interests I tried on growing up alongside the internet. I imagine kids are still doing the same thing, although possibly with more visibility.
- 2024-09-07 ā This is an interesting contrast to {1.5a1a} social media removes agency in our identity performance.
- Like, I guess it varies by platform. In all cases, {1.5a2} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network, but we are to play with identity performance by using different platforms for different use-cases, or creating multiple accounts.
- this is an element of users defining social norms of different platformsā¦ need to find the note about that.