Your Online Life Is IRL
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https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/16/your-online-life-is-irl/
Have you been thinking about how the line between our "offline life" and our "online life" has almost vanished today?
We used to say IRL (In Real Life) to highlight the frontier between what we did online as a separate thing from the rest of our "real" offline life.
But what we do online now affects our "IRL life" much more importantly, and what we do "IRL" is getting tracked and recorded online.
All of our life, online and offline, is In Real Life now.
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https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/16/your-online-life-is-irl/
Have you been thinking about how the line between our "offline life" and our "online life" has almost vanished today?
We used to say IRL (In Real Life) to highlight the frontier between what we did online as a separate thing from the rest of our "real" offline life.
But what we do online now affects our "IRL life" much more importantly, and what we do "IRL" is getting tracked and recorded online.
All of our life, online and offline, is In Real Life now.
If there's an article that would describe why I'm trying to distinct the online life away from my offline this is it.
Though there has been many cases where I wish to intertwine a little with it but I'm trying to be cautious to whom I'm intertwining or otherwise trying to not reveal my persistent pseudonym.
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