* Digital Identity: Tools of Multiple Identity

Stowe raised a good point, that I hadn't really delved into the many ways in which we maintain multiple personalities online.

I thought it would make sense to outline some of the many ways that we use different technologies to accomplish this.

E-mail Aliases Almost everyone uses different addresses for work and home. Many will also make use of separate addresses for different special interest groups. This can be just as easily used to perpetuate

IM Handles Similar to e-mail, there are lots of people that have different IM handles, or a multitude of IM services, at their disposal to interact with the different audiences they entertain/engage.

Blogs Though there are many, many cases where individuals start their own blog and throw everything, including the kitchen sink, into the body, there are also many different subjects that are taboo. With the relative ease of creating entirely new blogs, many have turned to spawning new “journals” to document the various aspects of their personality.

Site Registrations Many of us will make use of different handles and member names at different sites to provide separate “namespaces” for our activity.