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Should one have multiple online identities? Is there a need for more than one identity? Before expressing my views, let us first understand the meaning of online identity. To put it simply, online identity is defined as the reflection of an individual’s personality in the digital world. During an interview with David Kirkpatrick, Zuckerberg mentioned that ‘having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity,’ (Network World, 2014). Continue reading →

Do you have an account for Facebook? For LinkedIn? Zalora? TaoBao? Do you know by using web browser, you leave digital footprints for every click or search you make? Are you aware that, by doing what I’ve mentioned, you have already created countless of Online Identities? …And this can be a threat if you are not careful of your actions online! Online Identity refers to any characteristics (e.g. Birthdates, Workplace, Shoes size) that we created while interacting with websites. Continue reading →

Do you own at least one online identity of yourself? I’m sure most of us will have multiple online identities as we grow older. Online identity is especially important as it represents one’s character and personality, which will be open to the public if privacy is not maximized. Source: MTV News According to Krotoski’s article, authentic identity is non-anonymous. Continue reading →

Picture source from www.raokness.blogspot.com ​Question: Discuss the arguments for and against having more than one online identity. "The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."Eric Schmidt(American software engineer, businessman, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. Ranked 138th-richest person in the world by Forbes. Continue reading →

Discuss the arguments for and against having more than one online identity.In today's digital world, there are many social media sites that are being introduced frequently. Over the years, I created accounts in all these social media sites and thus, lead to multiple identities. Everyone has different sides on them on different social networking sites. The most obvious one would be the professional and social. Continue reading →

Discuss the arguments for and against having more than one online identity.In today's digital world, there are many social media sites that are being introduced frequently. Over the years, I created accounts in all these social media sites and thus, lead to multiple identities. Everyone has different sides on them on different social networking sites. The most obvious one would be the professional and social. Continue reading →

Source: Giphy This post primarily focuses on online personas, arguing if there’s a need to have multiple online identities to determine professionalism for work against online identity for school, home and friends. An online persona is how the world perceives you on the web. Continue reading →

Identity is a complete set of characteristics that define you.  Consist of partial identity, profile, and persona that’s referred by identifiers. Internet usage as a space evolve over the year. From passive approach, where we use internet to gain information to interactive approach, where we collaborate. Move forward, now it is Human Computer Interaction era where it used for social networking and peer participation. Continue reading →

Source: catctaylor.wordpress.com The cartoon above shows that anybody can self represent themselves on the internet, because personal information can be fabricated. This leads me to the topic of the day, Online Identity. So you may ask, what exactly is Online Identity? Online Identity is information about individual in the internet, it is the sum of your characteristics and interactions. A person’s online identity can be different from the person’s real-world identity. Continue reading →