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The Horrors of Internet Dating, Volume 2
OMG you guys. Remember that post about internet dating from a while back, and all the people I cruelly made fun of? Well, “lol spare of the moment!!!!!!” girl (this one) just sent me a message out of the blue. She wants to chat. What the hell should I do? I dislike ignoring people, especially…
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The Crumbling Line Between IRL and The Internet
I used to keep my internet life completely isolated from my real life. I’d never reveal my real name online, and rarely reveal my internet activities in real life. I remember setting up modem games of the original Doom with Cailen by email, because I didn’t want to give him my phone number (and of…
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The Emotion of WTF
WTF should be an emotion. There isn’t yet a single word for the sense of seeing something that totally boggles the mind; it’s related to confusion, but not the same thing. Confusion is aversive, while WTF leads to LOLs and a state of blissful unawareness of what’s going on. It’s more like confusion feeding into…
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