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ON MAY 8, a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid, including usernames, age, gender, location, what kind of relationship (or sex) theyโre interested in, personality traits, and answers to thousands of profiling questions used by the site.
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When people start backing away from broadcasting intimate details about themselves, itโs a sign that theyโre looking to reestablish some boundaries in their social lives, to mend the walls that social media has broken. Itโs an acknowledgment that theย collapse of multiple social contexts into a single one-size-fits-all context circumscribes a personโsย freedom. Thereโs only so much fun you can have if you know that your mom, your boss, and your weird neighbor are all watching. The protean self, weโre rediscovering, is a more comfortable self than the uniform self. Being forced into โone identityโ is a drag.
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