Why cant we use dot notation here instead of square bracket notation

JavaScript
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[Why cant we use dot notation here instead of square bracket notation]
for example - usersObj.user.online gives error why though ?

  **Your code so far**


function countOnline(usersObj) {
// Only change code below this line
let onlineCounter = 0;
for (let user in usersObj){    
  if(usersObj[user].online === true){
    onlineCounter++;
  }
}
return onlineCounter;
// Only change code above this line
}

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Iterate Through the Keys of an Object with a for…in Statement

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You use dot notation when you literally know the name of the property.
You use bracket notation when the property you want to access is stored in a variable.

// here you look for a property "user":
console.log(usersObj.user)

// here you look for a property  "Alan" or "Jeff"  or "Sarah", 
// depending on what the variable "user" evaluates to
console.log(usersObj[user])
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