If you concoct a convincing on-line meta-personality on the Net, then that personality really IS you. With so few things around these days to loan a person identity, the palette of identities you create for yourself in the vacuum of the Net — your menu’s of alternative “you’s” — actually IS you. Or an isotope of you. Or a photocopy of you.

Microserfs, Douglas Coupland (via prostheticknowledge)