Fractured Online Identities = Inevitible Dissociative Disorder?

My friend and coworker Josh just pointed me to a post on Coding Horror about Fractured Identity syndromes. Where a person can stick around long enough to have 20 or 30 different identities that are hardly if ever aware of each other’s existences.

I’m more interested in shrinking my focus into an ever narrower and sharper point than I am in diluting my effort across dozens of different websites.

I couldnt agree more, quite frankly. Focusing efforts on a more concentrated profile that can more accurately describe a person is far more effective.

I also wonder about the possibility of semantic engines finding all of these online profiles. They’re already trying to build profiles of people from what they find around the internet, and now they find disparate, incorrect information with little way of distinguishing what is true and what isnt. So does this lead to a situation where the smarty pants super computers of the world consider all of humanity schizophrenic?