Is it a photograph, or is it a chair…
To an extent, I think this discussion is moot. Technology changes the relations between humans, and that is considered true by many people, from avowed Marxists to cyberneticists to myanmar rcs data Silicon Valley CEOs (though, as Wendy Liu has pointed out, the interpretations of this idea can be very different).
I have sympathy with this argument too, because at a certain point the conflict between saying you’re speaking to someone but actually typing can be considered semantic.
But often it’s not semantic, because – unlike what Scott’s conception would imply – our digital doppelgängers do not follow us around. They instead live on servers as data, and we find them whenever we log onto Facebook or watch a video on YouTube. This is important, because while we move around, our doppelgängers say in the same place, which is in turn quite useful for those who want to understand us.