Today’s Self Identity Issues; What is the real issue?

According to Dr. Taylor’s Psychology Blog we as people gain our identities in two different ways. He first says that one way people gain their identity is from past experience, current needs, and future goals, and this happens as we develop self-awareness, and our observations along with evaluating our thoughts and behaviors. He says the second way of we gain our identities is our outlook on the world; socially, academically, and physically in which these three things are our second influences on ones self-identity.

You can debate this if you would like, but according to Jim Taylor Ph. D. technology has expanded so much that it has expanded our social worlds. The most powerful way that technology has altered/is altering our self-identity is through the shifts from being internally to externally driven. Social factors have always been a part of the self-identity formation. But with today’s technology it has been influencing us and changing out self-identities in many different ways.