Control Room

I turned my status to invisible for the first time today in gmail.

It was incredible, suddenly I was facing my emails alone and in private. No one knew if I was lingering, idling or actively wasting time on my account. I was in silence.

I of course could still see that other people were on their accounts and what they were doing. In my hidden niche of privacy, sitting silently and spying their on their movements, I never felt so disconnected and lonely, so incorporeal, so imaginary.

Email became electronic mail again which was nice, but the place-likeness of my email account was gone and I became a virtual being.