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user-inactivated · 3146 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why a staggering number of Americans have stopped using the Internet the way they used to
The Internet stopped feeling as utopian to me as it did when I started using it when Friendster and MySpace and, the nail in the coffin, Facebook took off. What was great about the Internet was that no one knew who or what you were in the real world, you were only known by what you had to say about whatever the topic at hand was. The Internet went from freeing you from any kind of identity to tying you more tightly to one. but that happened a long time before what this article is about.