How Much of Your Life Is Already Virtual?
A personal audit of presence, identity, connection, agency and the boundaries between your physical and digital life.
Twenty questions. About five minutes. No diagnosis. No judgement. Just a clearer picture of how digital life is shaping the way you live.
This is not a digital-detox test.
Digital life is not automatically harmful, and spending less time online is not automatically better. Technology can support work, relationships, creativity, learning, community and access. This audit asks a different question: how deliberately and coherently does your virtual life fit into the life you want to live?
Your answers will be considered across five areas: Presence, Identity, Connection, Agency and Integration.
The Virtual Life Self-Audit is a reflective educational tool created by Lyth House. It is not a medical, psychological or diagnostic assessment.
Privacy: The basic audit does not ask for your name or email address. Your responses are stored for up to 365 days to test and improve the audit. Technical records, including IP address, are retained for up to 7 days for security and troubleshooting. Read the Lyth House Privacy Policy.
Why this matters
We increasingly work, socialise, shop, learn, create, argue, remember and present ourselves through digital environments. The boundary between online life and “real life” is becoming harder to identify because the two are no longer separate in the way they once were.
The purpose of this audit is not to tell you to escape technology. It is to make some of those relationships visible enough to examine.
Explore the question further
The Virtual Life Self-Audit forms part of the Lyth House exploration surrounding Living in the Metaverse: How Virtual Life Is Changing Reality, Identity and Human Connection by Terence John Woodhead.
The book asks what happens when the digital world is no longer somewhere we visit, but part of the reality in which we live.
Want to go further?
The basic Virtual Life Self-Audit is free and does not require an email address.
A more detailed Virtual Life Reflection Report is being developed with a five-dimension breakdown, personal reflection prompts and a seven-day experiment.
If you would like to receive updates as the report is developed, enter your email address below. You will also receive occasional updates about Living in the Metaverse and related Lyth House resources.
How we use and protect your information is explained in the Lyth House Privacy Policy.