DISQUS

DeirdreB · 6 months ago

I notice my own multiple personalities online a lot lately and find my professional presence dominates. I am more and more careful about not revealing personal information. I found Facebook a huge problem as friends, family and colleagues joined. The roles became too blurred.

Martin · 6 months ago

Hi sarah. Someone raised a similar point in the comments on the post, and so I'll just reuse my response (except I won't call you Christian): I agree that we have multiple facets to our identities in real space (that's what I meant by I find people strange who boast at not having these). But I think online _is_ different because in real space those identities are separated by physical space - you may be a different person with your gran and your rugby mates, but the two are unlikely to be in the same space together, so separation is easy. Online everyone can see every facet of you. So, you have to deliberately create the separation that occurs 'naturally' in real space.
Martin