As John O’Donohue so elegantly put it, while “biography unfolds identity and makes it visible and puts the mirror of it out there . . . they’re not the same thing.”  Digital connectivity in social networking forces the “reduction of identity to biography.”

We are, at least, much more than we say we are, and in some cases, much different.

As our online biographies proliferate and combine with the digital profiles we create through our electronic behavior, our true identities may become more revealed.

This is what is so troubling about the Netflix Prize and MIT Gaydar Project .

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