My fragmented online identity
I've been resisting getting a MySpace account because I think the service is such an eyesore and terrible to use. However, my little cousins finally 
convinced me to turn to the dark side to help organize the next family reunion. (It's still an eyesore and terrible to use.) However, as I was creating my page, I didn't really want to input all my information again. Instead, my profile ended up being links to the following pieces of my online identity:
- My professional blog (this one)
- My personal blog
- My LinkedIn profile
- My Flickr home page
- My YouTube home page
- My XBox 360 profile
- My Yahoo IM ID
- My ICQ IM ID
- My Gmail account
- My Latigent (work) account
- My personal (jason@jasonkolb.com) account
As I pulled all of this together and put it in my profile, I couldn't help but think about how ridiculous this is. If I add to this list pieces of my online identity that aren't for public consumption but just for me, I come up with a bunch more:
- My TypePad account
- My BlogLines account
- My Google account
- My Microsoft Passport account
- My bank accounts
- My other bank's accounts
- My brokerage account
- My Amazon account
- My eBay account
- The bazillions of forums I'm registered to
- The bazillions of other sites I'm registered to
Why is my online identity so scattered between all of these different areas of the Web??? Now I can add MySpace to the list, great!
Surely there's a better way.
