What is identity?
Identity is as abstract as –Who am I– as a question for yourself and as simple as — My name is Denise, I am female — .
In this day with technology verging into new realms of space, where we sit in front of a box typing, talking and even smiling to an entity at a distance away, we do not come into contact with each other physically. We cannot smell or touch each other, nor see the slightest gestures of hand, arm or head movement. The sound coming through the phones are different than what we hear when we are in a physical space. Everything is changing. Any one of may be speaking to someone in email, forums, blogs, collaboration spaces, chats, etc. and not really know who we are speaking to, who their friends are, their family, what their job is, even what they look like and sound like. We all know this reality now. We see pictures in communities, we type long letters of deep-thought to strangers, we find often ourselves communicating beyond our physical selves.
And then we may find out that who we were talking to was a faker, a fony, a liar. You thought you were talking to a woman about woman things and it was a man, you thought you were talking to a fellow employee and it was a kid playing around with you.
So much could happen in the future of the world online, this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Who am I in cyberspace? And who are you.
