Unreadable on Purpose

And finally, they're curating an unreadable persona on purpose. Not posting isn't

always shyness, sometimes it's design, because you've noticed something most people don't like admitting:

The more you show, the more people think they're entitled to an opinion about you; the more you

share, the more they start building a version of you in their head,

one that isn't you, but they'll still treat it like truth, so you stay blank. Not empty.

Blank. Like a screen with the brightness turned down. You don't give them

enough to clip, enough to quote, enough to misinterpret and pass around like a rumor.

You don't give them a phase to make fun of. You don't give them a new identity to