Being gossiped about in school primes later compulsions to track online mentions.

Evidence

As a frequently graffitied-about girl in high school, this felt both familiar and deeply harrowing. I instantly knew that Twitter was going to be bad for me—and yet, like so many of us, I could not stop looking. So perhaps if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilizing appearance of my doppelganger, this is it: Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 87

Categorization

• DEFINE: Klein names the core of the doubling device here: the doppelganger as a destabilizing mirror held up by strangers’ talk, which she must learn to stop eavesdropping on.