The Separation Of Identity

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The idea that people are separated into differing entities depending on their environment, the people around them, and the situation and circumstances is something I had to discuss in my senior year of high school in an essay. My class needed to discuss what made us different depending on who we interacted with or where we were, and that is something I never had to deal with previously. I’ve never really thought about the distinctions between how I act, instead just propping it up to formalities. You can be extremely informal with your friends, not formal but not extremely informal with your family, and formal with adults, strangers, or superiors. I’d never really separated it into actually being a different person, but that’s essentially what we do when we interact with different groups of people or environments. …show more content…
Why can we not be the same person with our friends than we can with our family and superiors? Is it because acting as informal as we would with our friends towards our family or superior would provide us with repercussions that friends would not? Honestly, that’s probably the most important reason for the separation of identity. And it’s interesting how these rules seems to partially go down the drain when it comes to internet networks, at least in my experience; you do not need to be overly formal with strangers or adults over the internet, though the rule towards superiors still stands. With family, internet makes those interactions far more informal, being masked by written words that can be construed differently depending on how you read them, allowing you to be far more informal than in person, where your words come with inflections of the voice and facial expressions and

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