Identity is ....

Nowadays people own a lot of online accounts : Facebook, MSN, Mail, ICQ, Blog, Forum, Game...etc. Each categories may even not own only one account but two or more.

 So, what is [Identity] ? From Oxford English Dictionary the definition is: the fact or being who or what a person or thing is, the chracteristics determining this. In my view, identity means who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group which make them different from others.( concise Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary).


I have many identities online, listing them then I found that there were at least five, such as hotmail accounts, LU student account, Facebook account, Xanga accounts...etc.


These online identities are something different to my "in person" identities. In the reality world my gender must be FEMALE but on the internet I can set up my profile as MALE, also I can share my experience to others but actually that maybe just my illusions. My personalities can be "preset", people won't know my real personalities or things just if I let them know.