# Persona / User / DID

A persona in beoble is the same as a user or decentralized identity (DID). 

So, what is a decentralized identity? How does it work?

You can refer to the [Decentralized Identity & Social Graph section](/architecture/decentralized-identity-and-social-graph.md) to learn more.

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## Breakdown of Persona

The following is the high level of how data are defined in an `Persona` object of beoble. The following list doesn't cover every single field in the `Persona` object, but it shows some of the essential fields that might be useful to know.

### 1. Identity Data Section

#### beoble ID

* **type**: unique identifier
* **description**: Field `beoble ID` is a unique identifier object for every user of beoble. (i.e., every user in beoble has a unique beoble ID)

#### Wallets

* **type**: list of wallets
* **description**: Field `Wallets` records all the wallets that are associated with a persona. Currently, beoble does not allow users to connect multiple wallets to a single persona but plans to support it in the future; thus, wallets are defined as lists.

#### **Public Key**

* **type**: key object
* **description**: Field `Public Key` is the public key of the user that is used for end-to-end encryption. You can find out more details about encryption in the [Privacy and Encryption section](/architecture/privacy-and-encryption.md).

#### Name (User Name)

* **type**: string
* **description**: Field `Name` is a unique name of the user that users can set. It is similar to "handle" in other social services.

#### Display Name

* **type**: string
* **description**: Field `Display Name` is a field that users can set for name display purposes to other users.

#### Description

* **type**: string
* **description**: Field `Description` is a field that users can set for information display purposes to other users. 

#### Profile

* **type**: media object
* **description**: Field `Profile` stores the media object (i.e., images, gifs, videos) to be shown in the profile and background images.

### 2. Social Graph Data Section

#### Friends

* **type**: list of personas
* **description**: Field `Friends` stores the list of user pointers who are the user's friends. 

#### Followers

* **type**: list of personas
* **description**: Field `Followers` stores the list of user pointers who follows the user. 

#### Followings

* **type**: list of personas
* **description**: Field `Followings` stores the list of user pointers that the user follows. 

### 3. Setting Data Section

#### Privacy Setting

* **type**: setting object
* **description**: Field `Privacy Setting` stores the privacy setting that the user has set. It contains Web 3.0 access settings and social graph based access settings.

#### Chatroom Setting

* **type**: setting object
* **description**: Field `Chatroom Setting` stores the setting and customization per chatroom that the user has set. It contains notification and foldering information.

### 4. Status Data Section

#### Create Time

* **type**: timestamp
* **description**: Field `Create Time` stores the timestamp of the moment when the persona object was created.

#### Update Time

* **type**: timestamp
* **description**: Field `Update Time` stores the timestamp of the moment when the persona object was updated.

#### Last Online Time

* **type**: timestamp
* **description**: Field `Last Online Time` stores the timestamp of the moment when the user was last online.

#### Online Status

* **type**: online status type
* **description**: Field `Online Status` stores the online status of the user. Persona also stores which dApp the user was online from.


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