Digital identity is a curation — a selective presentation of a life that emphasizes some elements and quietly omits others, assembled for platforms whose incentives often reward performance over authenticity. The danger is not that curation is dishonest — all self-presentation involves selection — but that the tools make it so easy and rewarding to optimize the image that the reality it is supposed to represent becomes secondary. The examined digital life asks what gap exists between the self you present and the self you inhabit, and whether that gap is growing.
Each step builds on the last.