To preface this, I'm helping a friend whose English class is focusing on the digital age and how these technologies are affecting people. Leading up to her final paper, she's crafted some questions in the hopes of getting insightful answers from a wide variety of people. If you can take some time to answer these questions, it would really help, but otherwise feel free to discuss the answers from others in the thread. I'll also be crafting and posting my own answers to the questions and posting them.

1. What is your opinion on pennames/tags/personas on the internet? How do you think they affect interaction with other people? Do you have one of these?

2. Do you change how you act on the internet in relation to how you act in real life? Does this augment or hinder your ability to interact with or even befriend others on the internet?

3. What type of social media do you use? (Facebook, Twitter, G , etc.) Do you use any sort of content-based sites? (Youtube, Deviantart, Tumblr). What sort of things do you post?

4. How much information about yourself and your activities do you post on these sites?

5. Does your use any of these websites boost your self esteem? If it does, then how so? If not, do these websites lower your self esteem? How so?

6. What technologies did you grow up with personally? How did they affect your growth? How do you think you may have grown up differently without the same technologies?