Fred Wilson writes
Twitter is default public and everyone knows that’s what it is. Your Twitter identity is the lightest weight,most public,and therefore the best identity on the web.
and
Default public online identities are very powerful and very revealing about people,maybe more so than default private identities. They can be used for almost anything that default private identities can be used for. But they can be used without asking for permission from the owner of the profile because the information is public already
Agreed. It sounds to me,however,that Fred is assuming we each interact in twitter without regard to that identity;assuming that we just ‘be’and the identity takes care of itself.
I expect the opposite. Social media and the knowledge we’re being watched inspires each of us to craft those identities carefully,as if we were writing a script for a movie.
Twitter is the reflecting pool and we’re all staring into it. Just…remember to look away,hmkay?
