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“…I feel very different online. I am a lot more outgoing, less inhibited. I would say I feel more like myself. But that’s a contradiction.”

No, it’s not. Building an online persona is like drinking alcohol. Both take away inhibitions. Inhibitions are those nasty things that make you think twice, or not at all, about doing or saying something. And what we do and say is what defines who we are to others. While our decision making when inebriated may not be as crisp, it is more primal and kept less in check. Being in touch with our primal being of self is sought after and is evident in our use of alcohol to get away from our “real-constructed” selves. The consequences just happen to much less severe online. When I was on Second Life, I started with a sense of inhibition. It took a little while, but I finally began to become someone other than my real self. I didn’t really care what others thought. It was then I decided to walk around with an enormous boner… Does size matter in Second Life? I don’t care. I’m hung like a Clydesdale on Viagra.