Arena Magazine, February 1st, 2000
Being John Malkovich Back when the Internet was almost new, I overheard a conversation between two computer geek-boys. They were hunched over a table in a university campus cafe. One of them was telling the sad story of his cyber love affair which had gone wrong. `I realised that she wasn't a person at all. She was a persona,' moaned broken-hearted Geek One. It seemed that he had fallen foul of the playful opportunities for masking identity that are offered in e-mail and chatrooms. I never found out the exact nature of the betrayal of Geek One, but it seemed he felt that he had been deceived....
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