Virtually you : the dangerous powers of the e-personality / Elias Aboujaoude.
Aboujaoude, Elias, 1971-
2011
RC569.5.I54 A26 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Virtually you : the dangerous powers of the e-personality / Elias Aboujaoude.
Author Aboujaoude, Elias, 1971-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393070644
0393070646
Publication Details New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Language English
Description 349 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number RC569.5.I54 A26 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.85/84
Summary Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. This new self, which Aboujaoude dubs our "e-personality," manifests itself in every curt email we send, Facebook "friend" we make, and "buy now" button we click. Too potent to be confined online, however, e-personality traits seep offline, too, making us impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven even after we log off. This first scrutiny of the virtual world's transformative power on our psychology shows us how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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E-personality
Delusions of grandeur
Narcissism
Ordinary everyday viciousness
Impulsivity
Infantile regression and the tyranny of the emoticon
Love and sex recalibrated
The illusion of knowledge
Internet addiction
The end of privacy
Marking time, making memories
"Virtualism," or the art of being more real than real.

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