I’m not sure it ever occurred to me when I was younger how critical the internet and online ex

I’m not sure it ever occurred to me when I was younger how critical the internet and online experience would be to me. It was always there; it was a privilege to have and use, and it was almost seemingly natural.  I didn’t start using it more for its other features until I reached the end of middle school and onto high school; prior to that it was for games or perusing through online shops to build myself an ideal lifestyle, to plan an ideal future. In high school, I realized that I spent a lot of time online and began utilizing it, mindlessly, as a primal tool for communication. I had a lot of speech insecurities, and I still do, but using messaging and chat systems made talking a lot easier for me. I never realized that writing was a form of communication until the internet became that for me. It is now, more so than ever, my primary resource for more aspects of my life than I can count.–Mads on curating identity, speech, and access on the internet.  -- source link

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