[…] Frank Gruber, senior product manager at AOL, has a “Web 2.0 online identity video” (via Digital-Ethos) in which he posits, We’re all having an identity crisis. Am I really how I present myself on Myspace? Are you? […]

Nice video. “New different and good” is a nice sign off but is it all good?

Including characters in MMO games is also interesting when you consider high-profile fraud cases in games like Eve Online. As he mentions, you can also lie in real life, but its sooo much easier to lie and mis-represent in a purely virtual environment.

Simple things like in many MMO’s people might play female characters if they want to ask people for favours… feeling that a female asking for help is more likely to get that help.