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E-personality

In William Saletons 2011 article “The computer Made Me Do It” he discusses the view's of Elias Aboujaoude. Elias Aboujaoude is a psychiatrist from Silicon Valley. Aboujaoude, who specializes in online compulsions, has a very specific view of how he believes the internet effects humans beings. Aboujaoude believes in the Freudian id, but he has a much more modern take on it. He calls his take on the Freudian id the “e-personality.” Aboujaoude describes his idea of the “e-personality” as a “parallel identity that hijacks your mind online.” Aboujaude believes that your “e-personality” will make you do things over the internet (gambling, overspending, having sex with strangers, etc.) that ...

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today makes it very easy for humans to communicate with each other without leaving the privacy of their own home. This can be beneficial to anyone, but it can also have some negative effects. Sometimes while browsing the internet a person's “e-personality” can kick in. This could lead a person to do something that they normally would not find themselves doing in the real world. Some of these things can consist of spending more money then you should in an online store, or even having sexual relations with a person you meet online. These things may seem harmless in the virtual world but they can have many scary effects in the real world. For example, just because just because you’re spending money in a virtual world does not mean you wont feel the after shock from it in the real world. There are handfuls of people who have become in dept from online shopping. Secondly, having sexual relations with a person you meet on a dating website may not be as safe as the “E-Harmony” make it ...

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Added: 4/12/2011 02:15:41 PM
Submitted By: erinrae91
Category: Computers
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 465
Pages: 2

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