The shift from “media” to “social media” in the digital age has implications for processes of identity. Constantly confronted with evidence of our past, have we traded “screen memories for screens”? This is of particular import for those who yearn to establish new identities. People who transition, for instance, often rely on having a clean break, visually, with their previous appearances. Now that the Internet is more permanent, and more pervasive, it’s hard to avoid the relics of past identities.