Digital Schizophrenia

The internet allows us to create a new digital identity at the drop of a registration. Each internet site and communications service we connect to, register with or buy from asks us for pieces of identity, spawning a new, or at least part of a new digital self.

Most people that have indulged in any website that requires a piece of ones identity, have managed to keep these identities as separate areas. They have a real self in the real world, with parts of their identity stored in the digital realm, whether this is on Facebook, myspace, twitter, hotmail or youtube.

With momentum heading towards digital living, these separate areas have started to blend together creating overlapping identities, whether these identities are true or false, partial or complete. Rather than creating a more accurate representation of oneself, our digital identity has become blurred by these multiple identities that we create in the digital medium.