If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, "I changed my mind.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.