Digital Identity – we create our selves!

Jonas Klit Nielsen In a recent post, I wrote that two of the most essential aspects of social media for me, are closely related: human beings or people on one hand and identity on the other. They might even be the same.

The post was about the human aspect, this one is about identity!

The homepage at mindjumpers.com, shows a huge monkey with a board in his hands. On the board, something is written.
 
Why a monkey? It’s not that important for this post, it depicts where we think social media are on ‘their’ evolution scale right now.  What’s important for this post, is the writing on the board. It says: “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating Yourself!”.

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Facebook launches new homepage, rules in mobile, changes cooperation with Microsoft and plans more email stuff

Facebook is dominating the news today. First the world’s number one social network came with a new design of its homepage which, in fact, is more a navigational redesign to make stuff a bit easier and more user-friendly.

Then the media all jumped on the findings from the GSM Association and comScore (published yesterday) that the social network is the most visited mobile site in the UK (before Google Sites) and now I read that Facebook is going to take care of its own display ad business.

As probably everyone visiting this blog knows, Microsoft was Facebook’s display advertising partner for ages.

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