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Unlike in real world, where a person’s identity is shown to the public without being able to hide it, in the online web a person can create a different identity or maybe multiple identities for themselves. Continue reading →

Let’s start by Googling your name online. What interesting facts or information did you manage to find about yourself? For me, here is a screenshot of what I manage to find when I Googled: Julaina Dahlan. Turns out there are limited and no interesting information about me, except my LinkedIn account (which I should probably update soon). Even though I do own several Social Media accounts that I use every once in a while, I do not use my real name for it and everything is set to private. Continue reading →

(Image: Gerardo Obieta, 2009) Who am I? To my mother, I am her little baby girl. At the gym, I am a ‘hamster’ like the rest on the treadmill. To the cupcakes, I am an artist pipping their icing to perfection. In school, I am a student. Many facets, but they make up a single me. Complicated enough in the real world, what more the online world. Continue reading →

As the internet evolve, the number of people joining the connected world increases, along with the pressure of maintaining their professional image and yet still be able to express who they are at the same time. (Internet Society, 2013) According to the previous statement, I would assume that this then brought about the idea of creating multiple online identities, where people can have the best of both worlds. Continue reading →

  Photo Reference:https://shapeshed.com/images/articles/indentity_new.png                 Before I address the question, there are 2 terms that I would like to highlight which are significant to our discussion: “Online identity or internet persona is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. It can also be considered as an actively constructed presentation of oneself. Continue reading →

Topic 2: managing your online identity (Pexels.com, n.d.) A long long longgg time ago, many users used to be apprehensive of exposing themselves online for the fear of invasion of their privacy. That is also why Friendster and MySpace came about. Users could hide themselves behind their electronic screens and still have their own personas online! Howbeit, it’s not the case nowadays. Continue reading →

An online identity is a social identity that web users create in a website. Each time we surf the web on different sites and interact with them, we are building that identity. For example, when we shop on Amazon, the items we browse and purchase makes up our identity for Amazon. As such, it is possible to have multiple online identities in the internet. Source- http://www.acxiom.com/recognition-dogs-customer-experience/ Having multiple identities helps provide anonymity to the user. Continue reading →

Good evening readers, let’s start off the week with an interesting topic: online identities. According to Binary Tattoo, digital identity “is the permanent collection of data about us that is available online”. Users of social media present themselves online, by posting opinions, pictures, etc, creating a persona. Other users access these information and form a perception and judgement of the person’s reputation. 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 →

How much does an individual value his/her privacy? I believe many have actively thought about that post-Snowden’s saga, 2013. Internet users spiraled into a state of anxiety and began to question internet governance. The thought of being actively surveilled gave impetus to the use of anonymity solutions such as “Tor” and various “Anonymous VPN”. Continue reading →