For a long time, I have found digital technologies to be inextricably imbedded in my identity: in how I understand myself and how I understand the world. Because I’m dyslexic I’ve always considered computers as an expressive extension of myself, and moreover, as an ex-Myspace 
devotee I have a deeply seated attachment to the autonomy of the internet. For me, computers provide a vehicle of recreation and a place where identities are malleable and given voice.
Myspace, Bebo, Facebook and LiveJournal may not be the first place you would look for the new political generation. Indeed, the new political generation would probably deny it themselves, but nonetheless, internet profiles are sight of animate political activity.
Writing a blog or your own HTML interface performs a kind of reactionary assertion of the right to selfhood. Internet communities create new narratives of lifestyle and establish new subcultural ideologies and mythologies. True, we cyberspace revolutionaries rarely move beyond esoteric politics; we don’t tie ourselves to railings or take campaign marches. Mostly we sit in front of web cams recording ourselves, but that’s exactly why it’s revolutionary. Myspace communities enact dissociation from the body-politic of material control and ideological precedents. They enable an exploration of neo-anarchical dissent through an identity revolution in metamorphic semiotics.
The myths and legends of these subcultural cyber-communities are normal kids, not celebrated for their wealth, status, sporting ability, good looks, etc etc, but for their participation in the online community and their self-assertion of mediocrity. They’re celebrated because they regularly upload pictures themselves in the bathroom, because they write lengthy blogs about their weekends, because they message their friends regularly. Myspace popularity is achieved through community, through an expression of autonomy. As a venue of identity politics, cyber communities provide a communal identity, and yet celebrate the maverick in everybody.
As a sight of autonomy, an avenue of revolutionary identity politics, the internet expresses an egalitarian countercultural assertion of the right to individualism amongst postmodern semiotic disenfranchisement.