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I decided to go with Multiple Online Identities approach since 3 years ago, this is because I felt like there is no privacy and security. Thus I made another Facebook and Instagram account for privacy and professionalism. Internet Crimes has been increasing and job hiring is relying more and more upon on one’s internet identity, thus, if you have many personae and interests and is not willing to be limited to one idea like me, then it is better to have more than one personalities. Continue reading →

  Before Facebook and Instagram became the major social platforms of this era, there were GTalk and MySpace was used by the majority of the internet users and anonymity was the highlight among the users. Even though the internet has been improved and still is improving, the number of fake accounts is still increasing. According to this article, it is normal to have multiple online identities these days. Continue reading →

After reading through my friends’ blogs and evaluating my blog post, I have realized that we all have similar ideas about what made up the unauthentic information on the web. Specifically, I have read and shared my thoughts on Jochi’s and Xin Yi’s posts and this gives me deeper understanding in Topic 2. Continue reading →

“How do we ensure that that information we search is reliable?” Recently, there is a rise of fake news spreading around and we have to ensure that the information we received is credible, reliable and must have no biases. After reading Media Literacy, I have realized that the available information is usually one-sided, due to “Filter Bubbles” that is provided by search engines such as Google and social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading →

Topic 1: Digital Differences, changes my view and thoughts on web connectivity. I also found out that there are similar ideas and contrast points from reading my classmates’ feedback and their thoughts on this topic, which leads me to find out what I lack while contributing to this topic. First thing I noticed is that I lacked visual aid to support my argument. In all honesty, I’m not really in tune with using Piktochart or any other graphics-related tools. Continue reading →

Even though the web has been a big influence on people’s lives in the past 10 years, there are still people who don’t have access to the internet. This is where the “digital differences” come in and various studies have stated that “digital differences” are shaped by social inequalities and factors such as Demography and Economy background determines the level of interaction with the web made by an individual. Continue reading →