Social networking has become an increasingly large part of who we are as people. It allows individuals to create a new or ideal identity of themselves that is better, or more likable. This identity may be viewed as a fake or false identity because the individual is not staying true to oneself. As a result of the fake identity, these individuals can create false, unhealthy relationships and develop a narcissistic behavior. This misleading identity is the basis for “true self”, a term coined by American psychologist Carl Rogers. Susan Greenfield mentions the term true self in her book; Mind Change, which is about how technology affects us and our identities online. She mentions how even though we create a new identity online, we create a mix of who we are as our best selves and who we want to be. “Whether or not a social networking profiles expresses a distorted “true” self or displays something more comparable to the real self, there is no doubt that whatever identity a person is most comfortable promoting, it is likely to be the best possible version.” Greenfield tries to view it in a positive way and she reinforces the idea that it isn’t a completely new person but a better version of the real self. In 2012, Sherry Turkle gave another TED Talk, but this time she contracted her excitement about technology because of its simplistic ways for people to create a new identity that wasn’t their own. She realized that with all these technologies we were losing our true self to social media and online networks. “Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body — not too little, not too much, just right.” (Turkle). With these technologies we are able to ‘edit’ or ‘delete’ what we don’t like about ourselves and insert what we do like or what we want to be like. These technologies are dangerous because we lose our sense of self which negatively affects us as individuals and our relationships with others by creating false connections and views.