The internet can cause a fusion of the online and the offline self. With certain weak or impressionable personalities, this effect can be more severe. In Margaret Atwood's, "First Lives Club," Marla's personality becomes so closely related with the online world, that she actually believes she is Mary Queen of Scots, and ends up killing her friend who turned out to be Elizabeth the first. What could have caused that tragic end? The concerns regarding the connection between onling and offline lives are challenging the notions of what constitutes a real experience. Marla was influenced by Sal, C...

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