Awareness: Our Digital Selves Are Our Real Selves

It would be easy to dismiss the rise of “social distance socializing” asa product of pure necessity, a stopgap until we are, hopefully, able tosafely congregate in person again. But these online gatherings are theculmination of a much broader cultural shift: the revelation that somuch of our lives is already livedonline. What we might call our “digital bodies” — our online avatars,the words we write on Twitter or Facebook, the photos we post onInstagram — are