Word: borsook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aspects of a user's personality. Fortunately, only a relative few -- Lotharios who woo indiscriminately, for example, or pederasts who prey on vulnerable children -- have a devious and potentially dangerous intent. Most Net users are more likely to project aspects of the person they wish they could be. Paulina Borsook, author of Love over the Wires, calls this ``selective lying by omission''; psychologist Kenneth Gergen, author of Saturated Self, more charitably regards it as ``playing out our other selves...