Mon.Mar 21, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical

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The Challenge of Authenticity in Social Networking

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Erica Holt. How easy is it, really, to be authentic online? I’ve been thinking about this since Shonali’s thought-provoking post a few weeks back about how to social network smartly by being yourself online. She points out, “If you’re you online, you’ll be you offline.&#. I tend to agree with this assertion, but her post definitely got me wondering about online identity from a cyberpsychology perspective.