Online identity is fully integrated rather than compartmentalized by audience

Evidence

Although it is possible to compartmentalize online, it’s not easy—just ask anyone on Facebook who has agonized over blocking a ‘friends’ request. Online, our public persona is utterly integrated—we can present different selves to different audiences in private email, but each of these selves must somehow be consistent with the self we create for our LiveJournal, or our homepage, or our webcam, unless we decide to develop entirely new personae and accounts for each of our new ‘selves.’ — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages Goffman’s presentation-of-self and inverts it: offline selves are managed by physical movement between rooms, but online selves must cohere. — connects to: Social media makes others’ identities partly uncontrollable through third-party disclosure — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 637; Facebook replaced flowing multiple selves with a single mandatory real identity — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 370; Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 1463 (+1 more)
• ADDENDUM: Could support an essay on how the self-presentation mobility that physical space once afforded collapses online — infrastructure for identity as movement between bounded rooms.

Broader Connections

• Facebook replaced flowing multiple selves with a single mandatory real identity #contradicts (0.90) — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe, 370
• Social media makes others’ identities partly uncontrollable through third-party disclosure #complicates (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 637
• Social media does not transmit identity but requires its continuous self-production. #expands (0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1463
• Even the most public online selves are managed through deliberate disclosure choices #complicates (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 630