>I think people are adopting the separate identity way. One official identity, and another one which hidden and has no clear connection to who they are. Bingo.

>I think people are adopting the separate identity way. One official identity, and another one which hidden and has no clear connection to who they are. Bingo. And I think it's layered. This is a separate identity from myself, with just enough actual content from my life and knowledge that if someone is interested in contacting me for something professional, they can put together what my specialties might be. But even with all of the posts on here, you'll play hell figuring out who I actually am. Then there are the other online identities who have literally no connection to myself. No clues. No posts. No pictures. Nothing to link them to me. Reddit is a good example. I post there, but nobody would ever be able to put together who is the human doing that. (it helps to have a username that someone else uses on a different site, btw. I stole an HN handle that made me chuckle to use on reddit, and this one is used by another very salty person on reddit). It's all about separation. I think that's the key.