A residual self-image of my online persona

I am fickle and callow and oft thought of as naive. Social media has worn thin upon me and I feel as if I'm dragging through the dregs looking for something most mornings when I wake up, eat breakfast, and plug in to the netherworld of false connections.
I read an article recently in New York magazine about our personal digital imprints and what happens to them (some might go so far as to say, "What happens to my online self...") when we ("...I...") die. People now live solely online and less so through personal ephemera, photo albums, journals, and such. Our children will click endlessly through our Facebook albums and Flickr accounts to find out what kind of people we were. Who were mommy and daddy? Are they the people making raunchy faces and lewd gestures at some house party or are they the docile folks in these posed, yet slightly hip sepia photos? Will my children search for this blog in lieu of physical journals penned by me and what the hell will they think of me because of it?
I strangely feel as if I'm looking into a fogged mirror and staring back at me is an otherworldly self whenever I see "my profile." People who I've barely met have somehow come to be my "friends" and it feels very queer when that thuggish high school drop out with whom you may or may not have achieved and altered state of consciousness when both of you were quite young wishes you a happy birthday. I feel semi-violated, almost as if a pedestrian wished me the same.
Too much is digital - books, movies, music, newspapers, magazines, photographs, communications, and even myself.

I am now a residual self-image of my online persona.

"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature." -A. Einstein