Social Information Processing Theory

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"The Internet has a lot of great places to play where people are almost encouraged to experiment with identity—to see what its like to not be yourself, to exaggerate about certain attributes and hold back things that you may not like to disclose. Adults don't get to play with identity like kids in a sandbox get to. And that's where I think a code of ethics becomes very important—knowing when you are playing and knowing when people are counting on you."