Definition of Identity

http://www.nickbostrom.com/views/identity.pdf

I found an interesting website that led to this pdf file about identity. It is called the future of identity. It is really long so I decided to show some snap shots of the table of content. You can check out the website for yourself if anything peaks your interest. 

While reading over the introduction, it discussed the definition of identity. There is a passage that stuck out to me. 

Psychological identity shades over into  social identity. Social identity involves aspects such as the different personas (social roles) people take on in different contexts, how people identify with group identities (as well as sexual, gender, and cultural identities) and how these are used in various forms of expression and affiliation. People maintain a rich structure of social identities, often keeping them separate.  Each of these identities has attributes, roles and norms within their social contexts

This site defined identity and established the functions of it in a scientific manner. But the question I had in mind was where is the ethics behind all this? Are we becoming too involved or not enough involved when we aren't establishing our location every second when we are on facebook or twitter? 

I feel that having these resources are great, but what can we do to separate ourselves by the identities we created on the internet?