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The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.
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The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

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I dinnae get people, like they all want to be watched, to be seen, like all the time. They put up their pictures online and let people they dinnae like look at them! And people they__e never met as well, and they all pretend tae be shinier than they are _ and some are even posting on like four sites; their bosses are watching them at work, the cameras watch them on the bus, and on the train, and in Boots, and even outside the chip shop. Then even at home _ they__e going online to look and see who they can watch, and to check who__ watching them!

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What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say _ so much so pressing that it couldn__ wait to be said? Everywhere I walked, somebody was approaching me talking on a phone and someone was behind me talking on a phone. Inside the cars, the drivers were on the phone. When I took a taxi, the cabbie was on the phone. For one who frequently went without talking to anyone for days at a time, I had to wonder what that had previously held them up had collapsed in people to make incessant talking into a telephone preferable to walking about under no one__ surveillance, momentarily solitary, assimilating the streets through one__ animal senses and thinking the myriad thoughts that the activities of a city inspire. For me it made the streets appear comic and the people ridiculous. And yet it seemed like a real tragedy, too. To eradicate the experience of separation must inevitably have a dramatic effect. What will the consequence be? You know you can reach the other person anytime, and if you can't, you get impatient__mpatient and angry like a stupid little god.