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...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...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 ...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 2015-03-06Source Material [radar.oreilly.com]
Folksonomies: timeline personal data
Folksonomies: timeline personal data
17 JUN 2013
Eclipse Phase - Panopticon
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Boyle , Rob and Cross, Brian (2011-06-15), Eclipse Phase - Panopticon, Retrieved on 2013-06-17Source Material [books.google.com]
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 2012-01-03Source Material [books.google.com]