I wonder whether the whole idea of a single “authentic” identity to present to friends, family, colleagues, etc. is fundamentally flawed. Humans are social beings, and that necessitates a certain agreeableness, which implies fluid and context-dependent social identities for each person. Not doing so affects range and depth of experience, IMHO.

In a bid to capture all aspects of your “true” identity (that too, for marketing purposes) Facebook is trying to force legibility [1] on something it fundamentally doesn’t understand. If it succeeds, then we might have the largest disaster caused by a bureaucracy, the kind one has learned to expect from reckless government planning [1,2].

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_Stat...