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Can You Fully Express Your True Self Online?
How much of “you” really comes through on a digital screen?
We’re currently living in a time where human-to-human contact is at an all-time low. And like any revolutionary moment in history, the result of COVID-19 is that it has completely uprooted our former way of life. In the case of COVID-19 specifically, it has drastically affected the way that we physically interact with one another.
Thankfully for us, there are ways to interact with other people without ever coming into any sort of physical contact. Due to the overwhelming number of avenues for virtual communication, we’ve been able to do most things online with the help of the internet.
Ever since the internet was first introduced to us, there has been ongoing groundbreaking developments in technology which have made it easier for us to communicate online, limiting the amount of face time needed. It’s almost as if the internet has been waiting for the day where we took everything online.
First there was e-mail, then there was instant messenger, online forums, group chat, and eventually real-time video-chatting. The combination of these different methods of communication has paved way for the boom that has become social media.
