One identity or more? « BuzzMachine - 0 views
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Real identity has improved the tone and tenor of interaction online.
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Anonymity has its place. It protects the speech of Chinese dissidents, Iranian protestors, and corporate whistleblowers. It allows Wikileaks to expose secrets. It helps people share, for example, medical data and benefit others without having to reveal themselves.
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But anonymity is often the cloak of cowards.
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Julia Allison, on the other hand, sides with those who say we should maintain many identities—one for work, another for school, another for home, another for friends. Those folks say we get in trouble online when these identities mix and blur,
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“An age of transparency,” says author David Weinberger, “must be an age of forgiveness.”
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but our inner, real selves and our outer, show selves
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I thought this might be of interest as we think about how to interact with social media technology.
