Social Internet

Organizing web identities

I had a bad habit of going through email addresses when I was younger. The fascination of choosing any persona and whimsical name was too addictive and I made sure I exploited it to the full. I’ve had after the rains, in the rains, little rain cloud, tuscan lights and a countless other  email handles that after a point were too boring to continue with. Thankfully, I didn’t lose any of my friends to changing emails but I’m realizing a bigger problem now. The need for one organized identity throughout the internet. I’ve left digial turds on plenty of social media sites/ social media tools and various other sites that I might have just wanted to "try" out. (FYI - no. you won’t find me on match.com or shaadi.com)

But in doing so - I’m a different handle everywhere. My college years are marked by one handle and then my post-college years by another handle and now yet another one for professional reasons. The lines are so blurred now — and I have on fragmented identity on the internet.

Also, changing the blog name didn’t help because now I’ve gotta figure out how to change the URL…

Any suggestions people?

As a start, I changed my twitter to miyume01 because my AIM is miyume01. (And I recently started using AIM because the rest of the world may be on MSN, but America is still on AIM)