Being your selves: identity R&D on the pseudonymous internet
By default, social media platforms flatten you into a single profile that makes your interests legible to advertisers. But users are beginning to challenge this norm. From alt Twitter accounts to finstas to private Snap stories, Very Online people are incubating new models of digital selfhood. What happens when the internet gets inside of us? How does our media technology re-shape our identities?
Being your selves: identity R&D on the pseudonymous internet AZL .BLOG re: media memory & metaphor Being your selves: identity R&D on the pseudonymous internet February 18, 2020 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Glencoe, IL This post was originally published on Ribbonfarm . I grew up in cyber spaces where legal names were few and far between: RuneScape, AIM, Club Penguin, Neopets, and the like. But when I turned 13, Facebook opened up its floodgates to teenagers across America and washed away our playful screen names. My online social life slowly migrated to Facebook's News Feed and, before long, I stopped t
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