The movie Salt gives us insight into deep culture’s conception of how many profiles one person can have.<\/p>\n
Observation<\/strong>: In the movie Salt and in other spy movies we have seen a move from a single profile of a spy (James Bond) to a multiple profile spy (Salt) in which Salt is a spy, a counter-spy, and a counter-counter-spy. People nowadays seem to have no problem following this plot line\u00a0 and character\u00a0 (the wilderness of mirrors.) This is addition to her 2 “cover” profiles which would exist in each national culture.<\/p>\n Observation<\/strong>: In high schools now kids are no longer exclusively nerds, jocks, stoners, etc. Each of these can be short-lived roles even within a single day.<\/p>\n Observation<\/strong>: Facebook and Linked in are used by the same people in very different ways.<\/p>\n The Question<\/strong>: How many different profiles can a person have? And, how many different profiles of 1 person can other people keep track of?<\/p>\n Answer<\/strong>: I think the answer is 3 to 5. We see Facebook, LinkedIn, and usually peoples corporate in-company profile, and their personal profile (usually mediated through the channels of email\/phone-calls\/text messages. From the movie Salt we see 5. It is without a doubt more than 1.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris Messina talked about people having 5 profiles in NY at the Overlap event<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why spies, counter-spies, and counter-counter spies are so popular right now.<\/a><\/p>\n