Being Mindful of the Impacts of a Digital Life
In the early days of the web, the acronym “IRL” was frequently used to differentiate things “In Real Life” versus online. As the Internet expands into every corner of our world, the border between the actual and the virtual grows ever fainter. Social media in particular has hastened this erasure of the line between our physical versus digital lives. Is this a good thing? Was the border between the physical and digital life false to begin with? What are the implications of our