Today, I explained to a not-Very-Online person why I take social media personas very seriously, and believe them over irl personas as truer expressions of self: social media personas are a kind of mask trance (in Johnstone/Impro sense).
Specifically, true-name mask trances
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I am finding my self to be less trusting of not-very-online. It seems that either you have a public social media persona you can own or you are choosing to hide.
This may stem from the many people who were online but disappeared around 2016 and went full maga.
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Just like with Johnstone’s masks one may be reluctant to adopt a persona, foreseeing a loss of control of sorts.
Don’t managed personas subvert this, though? And it’s not always obvious what’s managed and what isn’t
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