How do you feel like you take up space in the digital world? Do you occupy space in the digital world socially, professionally, anonymously? Do you appear different digitally online and physically in person? Have you physically met the people you interact with online? Does your online identity reflect your physical real world self? Do you spend too much time occupying the digital world? Do you feel connected to the digital world? Do you feel disconnected from the physical world? What's it like interacting with people online vs in real life? Can you feel connected to people online the same way you can in person?
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To me, it doesn't feel possible to take up space in the digital world. It's more of a never ending, never fully discoverable universe in my eyes. Paradoxically, anything is discoverable in the digital world for better or for worse. It's all a show anyways. We show people what we want to show them. We create the persona we want to be perceived as. There is also the ability to hide behind a screen to say things we wouldn't have the courage to someone's physical face. So often we hear about the negative aspect of that trait: people saying vicious things that they think hold no consequences but there is the ability to be vulnerable with someone else's screen when…