#uosm2008, Page 10

When it comes to one’s job search at the end of university, one of the first things we are urged to consider is our online presence. In our inevitable pursuit to impress and be noticed by future employers, it is critical to develop an online profile that reflects your professional side. There are a selection of horror stories featuring real-life examples of when people fail to uphold their professional online identity. Continue reading →

As we delve deeper into the 21st century, we have to find a balance between recreational and professional usage of social media platforms, as our online presence is becoming a more and more intrinsic part in the job hunting and recruitment process. Huang et al. (2015) stated that creating an organised visualisation of our person is an indispensible method in making positive advancements to our lives. Continue reading →

As we all near Graduation and our entrance into the ‘Real World’ draws ever closer, our Social Media habits must adapt and change to reflect this. Instead of filling our newsfeeds with photos of last Wednesday’s Social people are starting to dedicate time to creating, updating and maintaining LinkedIn profiles. On average we spend nearly 4 hours per day on Social Media, this equates to almost half a working day (Nyman, 2014). Continue reading →

[1]What comes into your mind when you hear the phrase online professional profile? LinkedIn right. You could not be more wrong. I am not advertising LinkedIn but do you know that LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet [2] I bet you even have an account with them. Okay now concentrate as I discuss the ways in which an authentic online professional profile can be developed. Continue reading →

This topic has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. The term ‘Multiple Online Identities’ seemed, on the outset, to be such a simple concept, yet there are some really deep questions that much be considered when debating the pros and cons. While I was quick to consider the concept of online anonymity, I initially thought only about the risks it entails, such as cyberbullying and catfishing. Continue reading →

There are many ways in which people come across to others online; publish themselves to the world via photos, comments, posts and other social media. Likewise, there are many ways in which others try to protect themselves online. I realised a very important thing when reading Jens’s blog about the choice we make when publishing information online. Continue reading →

This topic was a lot broader than I first anticipated. From looking at some of the other blog posts I can clearly see that. There were a lot of different views on this subject and everyone had a different way to target this question. I personally like the way Bartosz targeted the question at hand. He gave a view of how we would act in real life to different social groups and then added upon this by linking it with online identities. Continue reading →

It has been an interesting discussion over these two weeks since this is an issue which the argument could go both ways and I have enjoyed reading others’ blog posts and have seen a lot of different perspectives on this particular topic. Namat’s blog post extended my thinking of who have the power of manipulating ones’ online identities. In fact, not only ourselves have the power of controlling our own online identities, others have the power of doing so too. Continue reading →

After reading and reviewing other people’s blog posts, it’s clear that what constitutes a separate ‘online identity’ has a subtly different meaning for different people; some took this to mean that if their Facebook and LinkedIn ‘persona’ were different then they had multiple identities. I’d taken a different tack, assuming that an identity was only ‘separate’ when it was fragmented and disconnected (which really can only happen by design). Continue reading →

Having completed my own blog entry on this topic and read entries from the rest of the class, it is clear that this is a topic that is determined much more by personal opinion than what we have covered so far. Continue reading →