> In what sense is what happens online not part of the real world? This is mainly the reason why the last "real world" was in quotes. When you take statistics

> In what sense is what happens online not part of the real world? This is mainly the reason why the last "real world" was in quotes. When you take statistics of something, you usually want to compare them to something. For me, a natural comparison for internet statistics is some physical places like offices, public streets, schools, bars. "a real world" - I'm not saying that the internet is not part of it.