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Final Thoughts

  12 days were all it took for me to transform my online identity. I used to only surf the web for mostly leisure purposes and I also had the habit of posting whatever that I was feeling, onto the Internet. I was exposed to social media at the young age of 13, and I recall having posted a lot of unhappy remarks about friends and teachers or anyone that made me upset, on my twitter account. One example would be the screenshot below. Continue reading →

How can we protect our identities better?

Through a couple of meaningful discussions with my friends, I came to realise that I was lacking elaboration in my post previously. Firstly, I touched on the topic of the importance of our digital identities (because of potential employers screening our social media profiles), but I did not cover how we could reduce risking employment opportunities.       Adapted from Ruefman. (2015). Self-produced. Continue reading →

Are you being authentic?

Let’s talk about online identities! From FutureLearn, I found out that because of our digital differences, we adapt to different online identities. Adapted from FutureLearn. Self-produced. It’s not something to neglect because it affects actions that we take, which then affects our various networks. I made a video explaining how I use multiple identities, because I believe different platforms have different functions, and are meant for different groups of people in our lives. Continue reading →

Reliability and authenticity?

I read through some of my friends’ blogs and found out many things that I was not aware of before. Firstly, I only had minimal knowledge about the impacts of filter bubbles and echo chambers, until I read Audrey’s post and learnt that our searches could give us very different results. During Pariser’s TED talk (2011), he brought up an example about his two friends, who googled “Egypt” and got drastically different results. Continue reading →