He notes that the anonymity of the Internet enabled him and others to adopt any persona they wished. That is, he put an end to his many on-line personas. Finally the fragmentation of self got to be too much for him. He worried about his real identity and the identities of his Gen X soulmates. He worried that they are never fixed or final.
Identity is only a series of possibilities.
Upon further reflection, he began to see that so much about his generation was fragmented. That is why I boil down the religious quest of GenX pop culture to one question that begins on the most intimate level possible and in the midst of profound ambiguity. The frailty that we perceive threatening all of these relationships continually provokes us to ask this question. That's what one observer, of the generation brought up on the Internet, understands to be his generation's most fundamental question. There is clear direction for our preaching here.