Chat apps force us to reply quickly and honestly,and allow us to reveal our best version of ourselvesRight now, I acquire five chat windows open on my Gmail. Four individual, and one group. The first is pinging every few seconds,the second has gone dormant because she’s gone to make tea, and the group chat starts with a Clickhole link followed by a thread of puns, or which,although typed with the imperfect syntax of a spam email, read, and I feel,like award-winning prose.
I reflect I’m better online. Or rather the avatar, sitting at her screen, or calmly creating a funnier,better version of herself, is. I can merrily catfish my friends and colleagues, and while I camouflage my mood,and procrastinate from work until I get caught.
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Source: theguardian.com