When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way its a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.
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Zadie Smith was a contemporary British writer. Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Read more on Wikipedia →