Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality

by Elias Aboujaoude

Book Overview

While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our e-personality and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we're becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393340546
• ISBN13: 9780393340549
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"