Something interesting to note is a comment made in Huffstutter's article about people who meet through Hypertext environments getting together. I strongly believe that the ability to release socially unacceptable behavior is a good benefit of Hypertext. One might say that allowing a person to pursue this behavior is only mere encouragement, but I believe that it reduces that person's internal drive towards the behavior in real life. In addition, Hypertext provides a positive environment for exploring and creating new attributes with an existing persona. Corresponding with the liberation of negative behavior, one can safely perform this exploration with Hypertext.
Safety is one essential element of Hypertext.
A large proponent of personae shifting is the author's knowledge that he can alter something later or simply stop at any time. Something that I would like to examine in the future is why the exploration of alternate personae in Hypertext is sometimes not helpful to the author. Turkle mentions this in the case of the married MUD user. It would appear that either the person is in deep denial that they use a different persona while using Hypertext, or their alternate persona is so completely different from their real life persona that the person would gain nothing. I plan to read even more of Turkle's book than I already have and see if I can find a correlation between Hypertext users' situations and what benefits they gained through personae shifting, if any.