Social media is on the cusp of a threshold between the private and public spheres. What this means is that social media, even in its very name, combines, and therefore blurs the distinction between the private sphere with a very public media aspect that allows millions of people to read a single privately written thread. The intended use for social media is to connect people in a variety of ways that may not have otherwise been granted without the technology, and while this is a main use of the platforms it also is used by individuals to create and curate an identity other than their “physical world identity.” This in turn suggests that social media users have a cyborg quality, a being that is composed of both human and machine aspects, in the way that these individuals have identities that exist simultaneously between the real world and the virtual, the public and the private sphere. Therefore the actions that are performed in and around social media fall on a spectrum between the physical identity, which is comprised in the public sphere, and the virtual identity, which exists in the private sphere. A very prominent interaction on social media that performs this blending of private and public is the act of naming through hashtags. Thus these private and public sphere actions and interactions cause the cyborg’s identity to be in a continuous period of shaping, revision, and convergence, further fusing together  the physical and virtual identities.