In order to access computer networks, online bank or e-mail accounts, we need a wide range of usernames and passwords. Constant attention is required to track what our name is in each virtual environment, and what password is needed at that moment to access personal information. . . .
In order to access computer networks, online bank or e-mail accounts, we need a wide range of usernames and passwords. Constant attention is required to track what our name is in each virtual environment, and what password is needed at that moment to access personal information.

This means that using the internet requires us to constantly create and manage multiple identities.

The complaint that the internet enables people all too freely to impersonate alternate identities often overlooks a fundamental point: online, we are all required to assume multiple personae.

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