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The shift from emails to texts simply accelerates the process by which people are holding their own internal lives at bay. After all, if some future editor had the misfortune of combing through an archive of your text messages, I doubt she would find much that revealed who you truly were.

What does interal life mean mentioned in the passage?

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Internal.

  • Of or relating to mental or spiritual nature:

I think it refers to the level of privacy which technology appears to 'violate' since all we do can be controlled and checked now and in the future.

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  • Did you actually read the article?
    – Erik Kowal
    Commented May 4, 2014 at 17:03
  • The meaning of 'internal, I gave corresponds to what you say in your answer ' personality and emotional life'
    – user66974
    Commented May 4, 2014 at 17:14
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The context provided by the article makes it clear that by "people holding their own internal lives at bay", the writer means "the obfuscation or concealment of one's actual personality and emotional life behind an uninformative barrier of brief and superficial text messages" (I paraphrase).

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