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What is the relationship between our online selves and our offline selves? A teenager is killed because of a Facebook post, revealing how social media personas can eclipse and override real-world identity with lethal consequences.
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Spiegel: social media platforms are architecturally designed to amplify emotionally provocative content. Falsehoods — which tend to be more novel, surprising, and emotionally charged than truths — spread faster and further than accurate information on every platform studied.
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Online identity can override offline identity — the digital self becomes more 'real' than the physical self
Spiegel: in the social media age, the curated online persona can become more consequential than the actual person. Others respond to the digital version, and the person increasingly performs for the online audience, creating a feedback loop where the constructed self displaces the authentic self.Was this useful?