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It is inherent in human nature to express oneself in order to forge a personal identity. The medium has only recently taken a complete shift into new territories, the online identity. An online identity is anything and everything we want it to be. Facebook has become a phenomenon, reaching millions of people all over the world. It has also become our generation's form of personal expression. Through it we can create a profile of ourselves that we wish to share with others. We are allowed to see our own profiles and therefore our own identities from the third person perspective. This different perspective is imperative to how Facebook has changed our identities.

The present study investigates identity construction on Facebook, a newly emerged nonymous online environment. Based on content analysis of 63 Facebook accounts, we find that the identities produced in this nonymous environment differ from those constructed in the anonymous online environments previously reported. Facebook users predominantly claim their identities implicitly rather than explicitly; they "show rather than tell" and stress group and consumer identities over personally narrated ones. The characteristics of such identities are described and the implications of this finding are discussed.

Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships Early research on online self-presentation mostly focused on identity constructions in anonymous online environments. Such studies found that individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti-normative behaviors in the online world.

Who am I? How does our development of online identities affect our development of offline identities?

Talks about how to create digital identities and gives data on how often teachers update their profiles.

A teacher talks about how he researched himself and then began to build himself a good and accurate digital identity.

This source is not published through a newspaper, or research facility but yet by an individual man. Because of this I believe it gives valuable insight into how everyday people commonly view Facebook, and our identities.

This is a great site for my research about identity online and how identity is always going through construction or being changed to obtain positive feedback from peers.

A Facebook page where you can view Facebook users opinions on this issue.

Youtube video looking at identity on the internet

this videos a little cheesy, but shows a good connection on our physical selves and or virtual identities and how this makes maintaining our reputations that much more difficult.

This video shows college students giving a presentation on Facebook identity. They talk about how our identity on online social sites such as Facebook can affect our employment opportunities.

This article talks about how most people are not protected on the internet and it tells how people with accounts on the internet can protect themselves.

Talks about how the virtual world is self-controlled. Some people put up things based on reactions they hope to gain from friends. Our identity on Facebook could be close or far away from the truth.

This talks about possible negative emotional effects of Facebook and those with social skills that aren't as up to par as the average person.

This describes that students use what they learn from popular media to help build their online identity.

This essay writed by Danah Boyd at the University of California-Berkeley talks about the role of the internet and social sites in teens life, identity, friendships,etc.

This talks about how our Facebook identities are in our own hands and what you put up can never go away, even if untagged or deleted.

From the article: "Dozens of scholarly studies have popped up in recent years with evidence of how video games can strengthen social bonds online and off - or fulfill the same societal roles as religion, meditation and psychotherapy."