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Mar 2, 2021Liked by Marie Dollé

If the amount of care that goes into meticulously editing an Instagram photo or caption hints at anything, it’s that our intention for how we’re perceived online is boundless.

I think digital clothes opens a Pandora Box of possibilities...

If after all, there are multiple selves online (me on Reddit vs. me on Snapchat), how do we value each? Will we purchase looks for each of our personas online, or only for those that we prioritize? Most dystopian, will we ever reach the point where spend as much time and money on our online selves as our physical one?

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I remember reading an article from Balaji Srinivassan that predicts that in twenty years we won't even know what most people look like other than people we've met it person. All about avatars and pseudonyms to protect privacy. So yes, we'll probably purchase looks for all those personas online... !

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