I like Matt's post about identity on Facebook. Matt's blog is way up my must-read scale because he's in touch with his own shadow. Key quote:
My take is that our identities are to some extent manufactured anyway. We have some influence over how we look and what we do (but not total control). But these identities are also co-created with those around us. We perform ourselves (to an extent). And others feedback to us whether they buy our performances or not through performances of their own...Human beings have always indulged in hypocrisy and double-standards. They enable us to survive. New technologies mean that we must invent new forms of hypocrisy and innovative double-standards to continue surviving. Because let's face it, we're certainly not going to be honest with each other.
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Comments (7)
Matt is right. Even in an ideal world, no virtual representation is going to be as genuine as the real thing, so we are all inventions to some degree. Anyone who thinks their site is a perfect reflection is kidding him- or herself.
September 2, 2007 13:29 Permalink for comment
I suspect it's even worse than that: an identity is a product of perception as well as projection. So we'll have a different identity for every person we have a relationship with.
Control that!
September 3, 2007 08:28 Permalink for comment
Ahem.
I wish to be a pain and claim prior. Trust and Identity
Just because being a pain is a part of my identity, and if I didn't do it, someone might think I was impersonating myself.
September 4, 2007 10:33 Permalink for comment
Hi Earl, thanks for showing us your Newtonian Shoulders. It's a great post!
September 4, 2007 11:34 Permalink for comment
Thanks Johnnie,
BTW, I assume you are back in the auld countriee
How was the far north of the far south?
Cheers
September 4, 2007 21:30 Permalink for comment
Hi Earl, yes I'm back in blighty; missing the far south though!
September 5, 2007 08:58 Permalink for comment
Earl - lovely post. I think you'd have to do battle with a whole bunch of people in the prior claim stakes.
One point that you emphasize is that trust & identity is forged and reforged in conversation. I really like that and will steal it shortly.
September 5, 2007 10:04 Permalink for comment