Identity Management
To protect herself against stalking or outing, Eve has created a completely different work identity that cannot be connected to her official one, or to the identity she uses with her family and friends.
Here’s all the things she has considered to manage her work identity and other online personas:
An Identity for Each Level of Trust
Eve has come out to her closest friends, but not to her family of origin or neighbours – and she prefers to keep it that way. While there are some people she can immediately talk to about her work (for example those she meets at play parties), in general she doesn’t give her official identity to people who haven’t gained her full trust and avoids talking about her job with people she meets in more conventional situations.
Therefore, Eve has organized her communication channels and social media accounts by levels of trust - which are also connected to her different life spheres. She has one identity for each of these spheres:
- Bureaucracy (taxes, bank…)
- Family
- People she has just met
- Work
- Close friends
By separating all these spheres, she can limit the amount of information she gives to people she does not trust.