Your Online Life Is IRL
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Your Online Life Is IRL
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If you, like myself, have been inhabiting the internet for a few decades, you're probably familiar with the old adage IRL: In Real Life.
The acronym was used a lot when the distinction between online life and offline life was much greater than it is now. In today's world, can we really keep referring to our digital life as being somehow disconnected from our "real life"?
While it's true that pseudo-anonymity online is still alive and well, most people don't hide their real identity online because it's much different from their personality offline, but generally simply as a protection.
Even when using pseudonyms, online life is still part of real life .
The proportion of time we spend on the connected world today is also far greater than it was before.