hiding and revealing

• What makes cyberspace interesting? by John Suler, 6/26/97
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    • Anonymity online.... by MysticFire..., 4/9/98
      
      

>>Could it be that talking online (text only)...or not using video phones (as Dr. Suler mentioned)is allowing us the ability to reveal a certain amount of depth and feeling but yet giving us a place to "hide" as it were behind this screen<<

Funny, I thought I replied to this post. Oh well, here goes again..... Text talk does indeed seem to reveal and hide at the same time. Freud said the same thing about dreams, calling them a "compromise formation."

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