It is too convenient to vent our rage in public now. On top of this, there are three other culprits: “relative anonymity, a lack of authority and consequences, and solipsistic introjection—the theory that, subconsciously, talking on a computer can seem more like we’re talking to ourselves than to real people.” In other words, “It’s very difficult to link words on a screen with the reality that there’s a living, breathing human on the other end of the connection.”9 Online anger is a consequence of the division in our lives—our attention is divided, our minds are divided, and our digital
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