To be honest, I don’t have a twitter account until this course. And this account follows me.
This makes me ponder how did they find me. There is no doubt a booming market as our personal data are aggregate online.
From Vanessa’s blog, I learned that we have a ultimate control of what we can upload online, to secure a better reputation of ourselves. Consistency is important, no matter you have single or multiple identities online. We don’t want to be consider insincere or hypocritical. Multiple identities help you manage professional and personal life easier, but we need to know how to manage inner self and outer self better, whether is online or offline.
Yan Yi’s blog uploaded a video which tells a lot about online identity, Facebook is a platform you can extend real relationship online. Facebook is valuable, too many people build its business use their personal data. These personal data helps advertisement companies make smarter ads for you.
When we talking about privacy, it will associate with embarrassing accidents, and fear we’ll be found out this is not what we wish people think we are. Anonymity is an idea that I think great part of Internet. The grey area people can hide from race, prejudice, gender, appearance etc, and surfing online to uphold relative justice? When some personal stuff being upload online, and it being presented in public. People tend to overlook it, giving empathy or being judgemental are based on different background.
This could be an age of forgive and forget. You can’t erase your footprints online, multiple accounts are belong to your partial identity. Trust and respect is what we are playing online as well. [words 298]
Comments I made :
1. Vanessa’s Blog http://vanessalisoton.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/topic-2-online-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-5
2. Yan Yi’s Blog http://yanyiyanyi.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/one-identity-multiple-identities/
Reference
Jeff Jarvas, “One identity or more”, http://buzzmachine.com/2011/03/08/one-identity-or-more/