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Topic 2: Having more than one online identities.

With the increase of the Internet popularity people started to prefer spending their time online over other daily activities they used to do before – watching TV, doing hobbies, even family time. We certainly cannot judge whether it’s good or bad. Every generation has its positive and negative sides and judging them by the rules that probably can no longer be applied is pointless. We just have to accept the situation. Continue reading →

Online Identity, privacy and security.

‘Discuss the arguments for and against having more than one online identity’. The term ‘Digital identity’ is the data that uniquely describes a person or a thing and contains information about the subject’s relationships’ (Windley P, 2005) . We may be compelled to create more than one online identity in order to differentiate and disaffiliate our personal and professional lives or even different aspects within these. Continue reading →