"There are people who are remarkably adept at compartmentalizing. They may have an online life that is very different from their offline life but still manage to keep the two rather separate. For these individuals, it may be as simple as having a group of friends with whom they do certain things and another group of friends that they are equally comfortable with but with whom they socialize around completely different activities. In their case, the two spheres of existing—online and off-, virtual and real—remain neatly separate, like the proverbial oil and water. For the rest of us, however, this separation is no longer feasible, and we are living in something that resembles a cloudy emulsion, the existential equivalent of a well-shaken vinaigrette."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virtually_You%3A_The_Dangerous_Powers_of_the_E-Personality
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality →
Related Quotes
"Saying we have successfully logged off, then, is an expression of seriously wishful thinking: Most of us are never tr…"
"What if the virtual world, rather than making us more bellicose, immature, and impulsive, is simply allowing our true…"
"Parents might also be feeling intimidated by a new technology that they know their kids are more facile with. Parents…"
"This book is not intended as a manifesto for renouncing the virtual world. It would be both naïve and futile to preac…"
"Virtualism, as enabled especially by the Internet, is a major signpost in our journey through history. There can be n…"
"My bay had lightning stripes all over him and his mane was cloud. And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."
"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. …"
"Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived."
"Behold," he said, "all the wings of the air shall come to you, and they and the winds and the stars shall be like rel…"
"Then a song of power came to me and I sang it there in the midst of that terrible place where I was. It went like this:"