Me, you and all of us: the multiple versions of the “autobiographical self” in the existential environment of internet social networks

Abstract

The  purpose  of  this  paper  is  to  analyse  some  of  the  characteristics  of  the existential  environments  created  on  theinternet  social  networks  (ISN)  under the  influence  of  mobile  and  locative  technologies,  as  well  as  to  discuss  the proliferation  of  multiple  versions  of  the  self  which  populate  them.  The  ISNs give visibility and allow access to the multiple versions of theautobiographical self  which  are  built  in  a  collaborative  process  with  other  people  and  are available  to  anyone,  at  any  time  and  in  every  place.  This  represents  the complete  dissolution  of  the  boundaries  that  divide  what’s  within  oneself  and outside oneself.