true or false

It is virtually impossible to reinvent yourself once you have an established Online Blogging Persona. Much harder when compared to, say, a Tabloid Persona or a Tuesday Night Book Club Persona. There’s something inherent about a self-created “online identity” that makes it much more permanent than other types of personae and disables the expression of one’s natural personal evolution through it. It is maybe because it really represents one’s most complete self—to the extent that different public presentations of one’s personality can even do that. Or maybe because it’s the most pervasively and instantly judged and accessed and thus the more likely an audience will reject it, quicker.

More specifically: once you have a blogging voice, you can never really change it. Reinvention, for whatever reason and in whatever form, is not really an option.

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