Design and construct your Facebook
I want to avoid doing this like the plague. I don't like leaving digital footsteps against my name and I don't like the idea of taking what I consider to be ephemeral, spoken conversations and converting them into permanent written conversations that can be tracked and review by literally anyone.
I won't be having a persistent avatar because I don't want to give up my anonymity. I don't want to chat with friends online. Sorry if your a friend reading this - I'll call soon! I promise. I guess this all goes back to the idea that I think of the web as a-thing-apart and I don't want that thing following me back into this world. So if I pick some random name for my online avatar then I won't want that to follow me back into the real world ("You called yourself what?"). Likewise I don't want to link my online name / online life back into my real name / real life. Partly this is because of concerns about identity theft. Partly it's because of some sort of deep seated aversion to the social.
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