![]() ![]() My profile pic has the same fixed, photographic smile, regardless of the message I type beside it. True, profile pictures do provide some sense of who you’re talking to and what they (or their dog) look like.īut they’re static. ![]() ![]() The closest thing most of us have to a social avatar is the profile picture we use on social media apps-hardly the ambitious three-dimensional graphics that Second Life or Snow Crash imagined. Second Life made a lot of headlines, but it remained popular only in a smallish subcommunity of internet users, and similar efforts are even more obscure. It’s a central feature for entire genres of videogames, from first-person shooters to The Sims.īut for general socializing, it never quite took off. On a technical level, we’ve gotten quite good at projecting and manipulating a virtual body. It’s the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that’s a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Because Internet is for anyone, who’s ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. ![]()
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