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Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.