The IRL Fetish:

But this idea that we are trad­ing the offline for the online, though it dom­i­nates how we think of the dig­i­tal and the phys­i­cal, is myopic. It fails to cap­ture the plain fact that our lived real­ity is the result of the con­stant inter­pen­e­tra­tion of the online and offline. That is, we live in an aug­mented real­ity that exists at the inter­sec­tion of mate­ri­al­ity and infor­ma­tion, phys­i­cal­ity and dig­i­tal­ity, bod­ies and tech­nol­ogy, atoms and bits, the off and the online. It is wrong to say “IRL” to mean offline: Facebook is real life.

Really great arti­cle about our con­nected lives. Via Daniel.