9/22 Blog entry

Clicking on the Turbulence link on Flawedart.net i found an article called Lifetracing. This article deals with how identity changes online compared to the real world. Due to the ever changing updates and reworkings of websites everyone is required to keep up by changing their own information. This article talks about personal homepages, blogs, and the social networking sites that are most popular today. Blogs and the new twitter fad has people changing what they say and write more and more often. Through all these social networking sites people have their own separate identities. Sometimes however these identities may be seen differently than how we attempt to present them. As said in this article we see identity as a performance, or act. but "If we see identity as a performative act then how can we perform our identity online?" Therefore this article questions how real our personalities and identities can be. If somebody Googles us or uses some other search engine to try to find out about how we are in person before they meet us and finds something that changes their opinion how true would it actually be? Also since today blogs and facebook statuses are so popular and changing constantly how true is the identity we portray?