Life On The Screen - GoFuckYourself.com

quiet · 10-30-2003, 01:55 AM

whenever i think about gfy, the disfunctional community, i can't help but think of a book i read in 1996, on the emerging WWW. does anyone here know of M.I.T.'s Sherry Turkle?

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Millions of people now interact with one another via computers on networks, where they have the opportunity to talk, to exchange ideas and feelings, and to assume personae of their own creation

http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/Life-on-the-Screen.html

a great book for those interesting in the splitting of identity...

KRL · 10-30-2003, 03:51 AM

It would be so much fun to be able to realtime covertly watch people while they are surfing here in GFY.

I'm sure we'd get quite a show from some of the more popular ass clowns.

BRISK · 10-30-2003, 03:53 AM

Reminds me of this cartoon:

BRISK · 10-30-2003, 03:58 AM

What I find really interesting is how people's personality disorders are accentuated in their online personality.

quiet · 10-30-2003, 04:00 AM

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Originally posted by BRISK
Reminds me of this cartoon:

in a word: bingo

On-top · 10-30-2003, 04:02 AM

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Originally posted by BRISK
What I find really interesting is how people's personality disorders are accentuated in their online personality.

10-30-2003, 03:51 AM	#2
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10-30-2003, 03:53 AM	#3
BRISK Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,240	Reminds me of this cartoon: __________________ I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do, I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

10-30-2003, 03:58 AM	#4
BRISK Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,240	What I find really interesting is how people's personality disorders are accentuated in their online personality. __________________ I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do, I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.