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(Source: Google) With the ease of using social media platforms, it is inevitable that it comes with its price. Regardless of using it for education or business purpose, there’s certain limitations to it. Reading through my peer’s blog post gave me better insights into ethical issues concerning businesses. From Yong You’s post, he mentioned on how our information can be easily obtained online hence violating our privacy settings subconsciously. Continue reading →

(Source: Google Image) As discussed throughout the topics, the increase usage of social networking has generate large impact on both our personal and professional life. As much social media were used for business purposes, educational representatives can be seen tapping on these digital technologies for teaching and learning purposes too. Continue reading →

Going through my peer’s blogposts and comments on the different views of determining authenticity in one’s profile got me ponder; whether my social profiles are showing the real and professional me? Through Yang Ting’s post, I’ve learnt that we can definitely use social medias to our advantage for our professionalism field. Having uniform profile pictures and descriptions is definitely one method to look professional and credible. Continue reading →

Let’s me start off by sharing an experience that I’d encountered when I first started working for a full-time job. Still remembered my first day of work, I was quite taken aback by my colleagues’ approaches towards me as they seemed to already known me beforehand. Continue reading →

Reading through various posts on the debates of multiple identities triggered me to think again whether or not having multiple identities really benefits me. For instance, as researched by Klarissa, 91% of recruiters nowadays screen through their potential candidate’s online profiles. We don’t want our company to view us as being ‘unprofessional’ in circumstances when we are enjoying our private life moment, like Stacy Snyder’s case shared in Sean’s post. Continue reading →

Be it digital residents or visitors, I believe there would be times where you create different online identity for the usage on different platforms for different purposes. So what is online identity? To me, identity is what that describe you. Having an online identity means you are creating a profile that you want to display to the public. Continue reading →

Reflection So what did I learnt through the first topic of identifying “resident” and “visitor”? Previously, I’d no idea on what are these two term used for because to me, there’s only two type of people; the one that uses the web and those that do not use at all. Continue reading →

Both Visitors and Residents are used as the way to describe individuals’ commitment to the internet. It should be view as continuum mode of engagement instead of separate identity. Previously, Marc Prensky’s (2001) highlighted the ways of connecting individual computing competencies and age into two categories; digital natives and digital immigrants. Digital natives are people like us, who are fortunately born with the access to technologies such as the internet, phones, computers etc. Continue reading →