Working towards an article about on line identity—how the internet has effected our actual intimacy with one another, for better or worse.

What is our actual tone towards one another on line, and how can it become more loving or mutually activating—i.e. as if we were actually in the room with each person is one of my guiding questions!

How to treat one another as the depth of poetry they really are! How can our on line encounters be overflow from our real love for one another?! Looking at some of those questions anyway!

Thinking about virtual representation as flowing from true identity! Rather than a mask of it. One of the questions i keep coming on—how would you treat this person in real time or real life?

Tone is so important. Often on line, our tone doesn’t communicate care. Tone again is the “orientation of the writer’s heart to the words”, classically defined. What is our hearts orientation towards one another, and how to we communicate that in each medium.

I’ve always been interested in representation flows from true authentic identity. So internet would just be overflow of identity. But when it’s reversed, when persona becomes personality, people get lost. A teenage stage of life, is to identify self with persona; but a healthier version is the symbol of ourselves matching and being attached to who we really are. Identity precedes expression, or on line representation. The branding of identity is another problem.

That’s self as commodity, but that meditation is for another day! Enjoying thinking about how we represent ourselves though. Sort of like what clothes you wear, and how they reveal what’s going on inside.

Still, we are often way too flippant with one another’s real self on line. How deep a poem each person is! Let’s treat one another as the art we are! Would i treat this person like this in real life? Words still matter! And tone indicates the heart’s orientation towards language and other!

If our on line selves are representation flowing from our true identity as art flows from the artist, then we need to treat each persons art as holy being that is an actual extension of their inner dignity. Just some thoughts today. Let’s treat one another as poems in every medium!
Who we are off line informs and creates who we are on line. On line is like a stage, where we dance and overflow…