Have you been thinking about how the line between our “offline life” and our “online life” has almost vanished today?
We used to say IRL (In Real Life) to highlight the frontier between what we did online as a separate thing from the rest of our “real” offline life.
But what we do online now affects our “IRL life” much more importantly, and what we do “IRL” is getting tracked and recorded online.
All of our life, online and offline, is In Real Life now.
If there’s an article that would describe why I’m trying to distinct the online life away from my offline this is it.
Though there has been many cases where I wish to intertwine a little with it but I’m trying to be cautious to whom I’m intertwining or otherwise trying to not reveal my persistent pseudonym.
I would say online games might be the only “safe Heaven” now.
Well it is not totally safe, but you won’t get arrested an charged as easily as saying the same thing in messengers / social media.
@em True, it's hard to separate those two and harder to get away if someone went wrong online 🥶
The distinction between IRL/meatspace and online/cyberspace still exists; they are not the same thing. Someone picking up fruit and vegetables as they shop for groceries, or huging another person, that sensory experience cannot be felt through cyberspace. Encouraging people to do things IRL instead of through an app or screen is still a thing.
However, more to the point of the article:
Indeed, this is wise 
I think the IRL term will have a strong come back when ‘ready player one’ AI world will be built 