Psychology Today | 11.07.2026 00:45
We’ve come a long way from the 17th century, when you had to be Rembrandt to own a self-portrait. Now we have a lot of ways of representing who we are: selfies, CV’s, social media sites, family trees, and memoirs. Some people write their own obituaries. But we’re still missing a way of capturing the thing that most distinguishes each of us: our social networks. One measure of who we are is the people we relate to.
