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Our self-identities, that is, how we define and see ourselves as unique individuals, play a vital role in who we are and the direction that our lives take. The self-identity encompasses the totality of knowledge and understanding that we gain about ourselves as we develop including our personalities, aptitudes and capabilities, intellectual and physical attributes, interests, and relationships.

This site has a lot of facts about social media along with how social media relates to identity.

Vitak, J. (2008). Facebook "friends": How online identity affects offline relationships. Master's thesis, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

This article talks about how we express out identity through social media.

A paper on on-line and off-line identity

If you are interested in Youtube or identity or communities of practice, this is a great video.

This is a discussion blog concerning online identity.

Users often wish to participate in online groups anonymously, but misbehaving users may abuse this anonymity to spam or disrupt the group. We present the first general messaging protocol that offers provable anonymity with accountability for moderate-size groups, and efficiently handles unbalanced loads where few members have much data to transmit in a given round.

So what does this have to do with the psychology of cyberspace? There are two basic ways the internet tends to create division in one's life and identity. First, people tend to separate their online lives from their offline lives. You may have online companions, groups, and activities that are quite distinct from those you have in the face-to-face world.

Online teaching vs face to face teaching.

Cybercrime is booming business. According to Symantec's newest Norton Cybercrime Report, the money involved with digital attacks is now almost as lucrative as the illegal drug trade - $388 billion last year. That includes productivity lost to cyber attacks, money corporations and individuals use to thwart cybercrime and direct cash losses associated with viruses, malware and identity theft.

How social media is changing the way we do things in our daily lives and how we react to them.

Top Three Reasons We Join social Networking Sites

This article discusses the top reasons of why a person would want to join a social networking site.