[freewill] Crisis.

You can't develop an identity of your own.
Whatever or whoever you want to be, you can be on the internet. Whoever and whatever you want to be is already out there on the internet. All that exists on the internet is choice. You can't create anything new. You just have to choose. Choose a set of internet 'commodities' such as fonts and photos, amalgamate them, collect them, and arrange them in some perverse regurgitation that shows 'who you are.' Not a copy, but a mere reiteration. You add yourself. But you're not adding an essence of you. No ultimate identity. Not objective identity behind the one that represents 'you' online, or in the world.
Because your identity is always a construction. A reiteration. A collection.
Your entire life before the internet was merely a socialization process to teach you the options. We are part of the same system outside of the internet. We are merely collections of socially constructed identity roles. We are defined by our choices of who and what to be, but our choices our defined by our social environments and immediate contexts. You make the only decision you can under the pre-existing circumstances of any given context. So the choices themselves are not really 'yours.' Free will is, therefore, an illusion. Your identity, therefore, is not you. Your identity is not your creation. There is no you.
The internet exaggerates this.
The reciprocal and social nature of online communities will reinforce the identity of whatever mask you chose to put on. Whatever collection of things you have collected only because you had no other option.
Your online identity is therefore just as authentic as your biophysical identity. They were created through the same processes. Then, where will you draw the line between online you and biophysical you? Is one more legitimate than the other? If you say physical you is more important. You're wrong. Online you doesn't rely physical you. Once you've created your online presence, it's very hard to destroy. It will live online for eternity. While physical you turns into memory and ash. Online you is just as crisp and fresh as the day you created it.
With each new webpage-tab you open in your browser, a new identity is created for you.
Why is the physical world so different? What gives you more agency in your 'real-life?'
How do you know your identity is not created for you by a lifetime of systematic interactions with other people, institutions, and socially constructed norms?
When will your physical reality and the identity linked to it just become another, albeit more ephemeral, window in your browser?
With each new webpage-tab you open in your browser, you create a new identity. You interact with each webpage in a new way, working within a system of norms of interaction. 'You' become only half the equation in the creation of 'your own' identity, the webpage you interact with and the social norms that exist there are responsible for the creation of the other half of YOU. Half is a liberal estimate. There is no ownership. Of anything. This new online identity is not something that has existed before, but is nothing that you alone created. 'You' alone can't own your identity, because it's creation owes itself to so much more than mere YOU. Your choices were not yours to make. Because there is no you, and you couldn't choose anything else other than the choice you chose because you have no agency, because there is no choice, only the illusion of choice, because you were predisposed to make the choice you did because of your history, which is a product of your constructed reality since birth. Because if your reality has set you up all along (your whole life, every context you've ever been in, and all of history before your birth) to choose option A, instead of B or C, then is there really any choice at all?