A psychological theory of social media. Premise 1: People are inherently plural, each variant adapted to a particular context. Different parts of yourself are expressed and suppressed in different contexts. You are literally different people at work, with friends, with family
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Twitter is like being a celebrity in mini, and most people don't experience that in their other roles.
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Hmm, I guess that makes sense. I haven't felt like Twitter would be pushing me towards any narrow niche, but I also don't have enough followers for my stuff to get RTd in a contextless/hostile way, and I'd probably get more careful if I did.
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