## Colophon date: title:: The High Cost of Living Your Life Online type:: [[literature-note]] tags:: url:: https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-psychology-social-media/ status:: [[bean]] ## Notes > One value of privacy is that it gives us space to operate without judgment — [view in context](https://hyp.is/3_w1TFpOEe2rSd8T9OEARA/www.wired.com/story/privacy-psychology-social-media/) > Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatric and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, says we construct our identities through how we’re seen by others. Much of that identity is now formed on the internet, and that can be difficult to grapple with.“This virtual identity is a composition of all of these online interactions that we have. It is a very vulnerable identity because it exists in cyberspace. In a weird kind of way we don’t have control over it,” Lembke says. “We’re very exposed.” — [view in context](https://hyp.is/YKtGVlpPEe2e8e_YsF0VzA/www.wired.com/story/privacy-psychology-social-media/) - Annotation: Author of dopamine nation> Lembke says we need to change how we think about social media and internet use as a society. She calls it a “collective” problem, not just an individual one — [view in context](https://hyp.is/qlr45lpPEe21QzuDhqUY7w/www.wired.com/story/privacy-psychology-social-media/) - Annotation: Social media is a collective problem