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This topic has been a rather challenging one for me, anyone felt the same way as me? Hence, I was looking forward to reading my peers’ blog posts to see their different views on it. What Vivian mentioned in her post really caught my eye, and that is staying active on our social platforms. In my post I focused on the importance of personal branding, but I neglected the most crucial part of it, which is to bring it out and strongly advertise it. Continue reading →

Socrates once said, “To find yourself, think for yourself.” This quote encourages people to embrace who they are and build up on it. Trying to be someone you are not is not only exhausting, and it will not be effective if it isn’t perceived as true (Kanter, 2015). Likewise, it can be applied to developing an authentic online professional profile as employers want to hire you for who you are and not what you described yourself to be. Continue reading →

After reading various blog posts by my peers, most of us seem to agree that having multiple online identities is alright if we manage them well and don’t ‘lose’ ourselves in the process. In Teresa’s blog, she opened up my perspective on having multiple identities online as I did not think that it could be setting a trap for ourselves as well. Continue reading →

Before starting on this blog post, I googled my name to see what sort of online identity I have on the Internet. Lucky for me, only my Facebook profile appeared (I was afraid of seeing some embarrassing pictures of myself or embarrassing tweets I have made). An online identity is the sum of one’s characteristics and interactions represented online (Internet Society, 2011). I believe it is co-created by ourselves and the environment. Continue reading →

Source: Giphy Hi again! I believe the first topic has been rather thought provoking for most of us, well at least for me it is! Before reading up on this topic, I have always use the Internet as just a platform to access to things easily online or interacting with people, but have never thought about the different types of users that exist. This topic really made me think more in depth about how people engage with digital platforms. Continue reading →

Having read the articles on digital Visitors and Residents, I do agree more with the concept of digital Visitors and Residents as opposed to Prensky’s typology of digital natives and immigrants, which focuses heavily on age and competence. White and Cornu (2011) states that the model of digital Visitors and Residents is like a continuum and it is influenced by people’s motivation to engage with the Internet. Continue reading →