Online Identity

How information technology changes how we perceive ourselves.


Folksonomies: technology identity

Memes

06 MAR 2015

 Paradigm Shift: Everyone Will have a Timeline

In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline. It will contain everything we’ve done since we started recording, and it will be the primary tool with which we administer our lives. This will fundamentally change how we live, love, work, and play. And we’ll look back at the time before our feed started — before Year Zero — as a huge, unknowable black hole. This timeline — beginning for newborns at Year Zero — will be so intrinsic to life that it will quickly be taken...
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The ubiquitous tracking of so much data on everyone means we are entering a new age.

16 JUL 2013

 Covering Your Tracks Online is Suspicious

The drawback to covering your tracks like this on a daily basis is that it sometimes makes you look like, well, like you’re covering your tracks. People who engage all of their privacy functions sometimes stand out in a transparent society. It may make people suspicious, thinking that you’re up to something. If you’re only encrypting your communications with certain people, it sometimes makes it look even worse, like you’re collaborating—and it also pinpoints who you’re in cahoots with. So if...
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If you do not show up in searches, then it appears as though you have something to hide.

03 JAN 2012

 Creating Online Fictions of Ourselves

The most effective young Facebook users, however—the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults—are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves. They tend their doppelgängers fastidiously. They must manage offhand remarks and track candid snapshots at parties as carefully as a politician. Insincerity is rewarded, while sincerity creates a lifelong taint. Certainly, some version of this principle existed ...
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Lanier suggests that the most effective users of Facebook will manage their profiles like politicians, constructing a narrative that may have no baring on their real persona.



References

06 MAR 2015

 Year Zero: Our life timelines begin

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Croll, Alistair (03/03/2015), Year Zero: Our life timelines begin, Retrieved on 2015-03-06
  • Source Material [radar.oreilly.com]
  • Folksonomies: timeline personal data
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    17 JUN 2013

     Eclipse Phase - Panopticon

    Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Boyle , Rob and Cross, Brian (2011-06-15), Eclipse Phase - Panopticon, Retrieved on 2013-06-17
  • Source Material [books.google.com]
  • Folksonomies: futurism rpg
    Folksonomies: futurism rpg
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    03 JAN 2012

     You Are Not A Gadget

    Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Lanier, Jaron (2010-01-28), You Are Not A Gadget, Penguin, Retrieved on 2012-01-03
  • Source Material [books.google.com]
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