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‘it’s about people’ mantra weren’t so

enamored with meeting large groups of

people in real life? Perhaps social media

affords us the control we lack in

real life socializing: the screen as a barrier

between us and the world.” Then

Cashmore outed himself. “Throw me

firmly in the ‘introverts’ camp with

Guy,” he posted.

Studies have shown that, indeed, introverts

are more likely than extroverts

to express intimate facts about themselves

online that their family and

friends would be surprised to read, to

say that they can express the “real me”

online, and to spend more time in certain

kinds of online discussions. They

welcome the chance to communicate

digitally. The same person who would

never raise his hand in a lecture hall of

two hundred people might blog to two

thousand, or two million, without

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