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Topic 3: Building your Online Professional Profile

Please read these notes and check out the links, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussion, which we all then develop over the next two weeks through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. It is intended to give you a flavour of the challenges and opportunities in managing your professional online identity, and get you started on answering the Topic 3 set question below. Continue reading →

Online identities: Reflecting on Topic 2

This week’s topic of online identities has broadened my knowledge of online personas and security. For my blog post, I explored the implications of having multiple online identities and weighed up the pros and cons. I considered my own ‘online footprint’ and brought up my own relevant experiences of having multiple online identities for different purposes. I began to think about the amount we share unintentionally- for example, the ‘cookies’ we leave behind. Continue reading →

Spurred Into Action!

This latest blog post looked at the positives and negatives of multiple online identities, of which there are many. Again, online identity is not something I had given much thought to, even though as a psychology student the concept of identity comes up often. Reading the other blogs and comments I am confident that the positives of online identities outweigh the negatives. Michael commented on my blog ‘anonymity-when used ethically-can be a very positive tool’. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflective Summary

Once again, I’ve learned a lot from my peers’ blog posts this week, which has made me think about online identities in a different way than I had initially. In my blog I touched upon the issue of being universally identifiable online, and how it is arguably within our right to maintain some level of privacy online if we choose. Lewis provided a useful comment on my blog, explaining that some people benefit from being anonymous online. Continue reading →

Reflecting on multiple online identities

The most challenging part of blogging about online identities was concluding at 400 words as there is simply so much to say and expand on. I was blown away by my colleagues’ imaginative responses; while I concentrated more on separating the advantages from the disadvantages to reach a conclusion, others focused on specific elements within the topic. Bryony discusses the benefits of separating our personal and professional identities online which is something I practice myself. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Multiple Online Identities

In their comments on my initial post, both Hollie and Leah highlighted my mention of Alessandro Ludovic’s opinion that having multiple online identities can have mean that we start to have multiple offline identities too. Hollie highlighted this blog post for me which I found extremely interesting. As the author of this blog post points out, even before the internet was thought of, people have always adapted their behaviour depending on the audience. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Multiple Online Identities

In their comments on my initial post, both Hollie and Leah highlighted my mention of Alessandro Ludovic’s opinion that having multiple online identities can have mean that we start to have multiple offline identities too. Hollie highlighted this blog post for me which I found extremely interesting. As the author of this blog post points out, even before the internet was thought of, people have always adapted their behaviour depending on the audience. Continue reading →

Time to say goodbye: Reflecting on Online Identities

Picture Credit: http://thelifester.com/spirituality/last-day-for-google-reader/ At university I study Psychology so identity is a concept I am very familiar with however, online identity is a concept I had not thought about in depth. I am starting to realise is that the internet is becoming increasingly important for our generation. I have always taken the internet for granted. This week I decided to expand my online identity further and I created myself a LinkedIn account. Continue reading →

Time to say goodbye: Reflecting on Online Identities

Picture Credit: http://thelifester.com/spirituality/last-day-for-google-reader/ At university I study Psychology so identity is a concept I am very familiar with however, online identity is a concept I had not thought about in depth. I am starting to realise is that the internet is becoming increasingly important for our generation. I have always taken the internet for granted. This week I decided to expand my online identity further and I created myself a LinkedIn account. Continue reading →

Online Identities: Who Should We Be?

London based social media agency named We Are Social calculated that in January 2015, there were 2.08 billion active online social media accounts, which is 29% of the worlds population. One of the key worries for all these internet users it that of security. Everything you share which creates your online persona e.g. your name, date of birth, the type of music you like, is mostly controlled by you. However it’s unlikely you get to control who monitors your information. Continue reading →

Many identities online: good or bad?

In the age of technological innovation, the internet more and more close to people’s life. People share their life and opinion through the internet and enjoy this mode. People can connect with others via the internet whatever they are in which conner in this world. With increasingly websites, people need to register many identities if they want to use these websites like fecebook, google and titter. So a network user may well have many identities at the same time on the internet. Continue reading →

One Online Identity or Many?

The topic of having one online identity or many reminded me of something I remember from my younger days. When I was at school, I remember being taught one of the most important rules of the web was to never tell people your real name or give out any personal details. The threat of cyber-crime was one that people were very much afraid of, and the idea that somebody you’d never even met could know your name was a horrifying notion for the people of the early 2000’s. Continue reading →

How ethical is the act of creating an online alter ego?

In 2015, the internet has become an important factor in almost everyone’s daily life. Keeping in touch with Facebook, sharing pictures on Instagram, or making important career connections on LinkedIn. Even though the internet has the ability to shape what we do on a daily basis, people can use the internet for having multiple personas. This may not sound that bad, but internet aliases can be present in things like online dating and these aliases can do some harm. Continue reading →

Managing online identities: you have a lot more ‘identities’ than you think

Back in the day when the internet first was a ‘thing,’ we could remain relatively anonymous; not to mention, we could surf the web with little worry about identity theft and fraud. This old web expanded and changed rapidly. Today, people wish to communicate online with authentic identities like a well-maintained Facebook profile. Not to mention, businesses nowadays like to build customer profiles in order to recommend user-specific products, and consequently keep hold of personal histories. Continue reading →

Online Identies: What do they claim about you?

“When you are using the internet, your online identity is the sum of your characteristics and interactions”1  An online identity is a digital persona that is built based on your “characteristics and interactions”1 whilst browsing a site. Multiple identities about you can be assumed/created for each of the various sites you visit, each with their own subtle differences – realistically an online identity is a ‘subset’1 of your real identity. Continue reading →