How do Pirandello's ideas relate to social media's curated identities?
Consider the vast digital stage of today. Are not these curated online personas merely more elaborate masks? Each profile, each carefully chosen image or statement, is a form designed for consumption. We present a version of ourselves, a character in this new play, striving for a particular impression. Yet, beneath the polished surface, the unformed, perhaps anxious, self still churns. The line between the presented self and the 'actual' self blurs, becoming even more indistinct in this age of perpetual performance, where one can only be oneself by being many others.
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