The Internet Changed My Life.
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it__ a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it__ a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.
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