Reflections on Our Spaces on the Internet

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- To explain the naming shift, I suggested a model of three generations. The first is online-only, a parallel world where the first nerds interacted solely through pseudonyms β from early BBS to IRC. The second generation is offline-first, where online spaces primarily represent our offline social circles β think Facebook. The third generation is hybrid communities, where people virtually interact under their real identities and may eventually meet in the real world. Online and offline is no longer a different sphere but just two different modes of interaction.