Two Selves: Observer and Private Life

Sixthly, they have a two identity system: online observer versus real life

person. You don't hate social media. You're not trying to be superior.

You're not pretending you don't care. You care enough to look, enough to know,

enough to notice when someone's smile gets thinner, when their captions get louder,

when their friends suddenly change. But you still don't post because in your head,

there are two versions of you living side by side, and they don't mix. There's the online

you, the quiet, quiet observer who moves through people's stories like a ghost

in a hallway, taking in the light from other lives without leaving fingerprints.