When does one first get an identity online? Last Sunday I had brunch with my friend Fraser and we talked about how so many parents have blogs for their babies, sometimes written from the baby’s point of view. E.g. see Aren’s blog. I’ve also heard of people creating Facebook accounts for their toddlers. If I became a father, I’m sure I would do the same.
This raises an interesting decision: At what point do you hand over the password to your child? At what point can they be trusted to shape their online identity? Could this be the modern “coming of age” event, a sort of digital Bar Mitzvah?
wasn’t going to comment here until I saw that you choose the tag “death”…huh? be interested in knowing what that line of thought was that led you to choosing “death”. are you implying that the “coming of age” moment in social media is similar to the “death” phenomenon in social media — ie the myspace clone that is just for memorials, the endless fb wall messages that erupt on the deceased’s profile?
curious…