Month: September 2023

After this weeks reading, I have a deeper understanding of what digital identity is. Digital identity is your own presence on Internet, it is how you act on Internet, It is like a footprint on Internet, Digital identity is who you are.

In my opinion. personal digital identity is more private, more inclusive. Personal use of social media tend to be focus on one’s personal interests such as sharing contents or looking for contents that interest you. Professional use of social media can be comprehensive. It is more public, everything about the account can be found by everyone. Thus professional digital identities are often used for advertising , commercial, and work. However, personal and professional social media use can not be isolated. Even though changing privacy settings can reduce the risks of ones personal account being found , th

e algorithms will somehow expose ones personal account through professional account.

Digital identities usually attracts to one another because of the algorithms or the data flow. For instance, Instagram would recommend friends suggestions based on how many friends people shared in common. Digital identities converges in networked publics definitely benefits people in many ways. People can socialize using their digital identities more conveniently with the modern algorithms, people can find the group that share the same interests in easily. However, negative impacts about this phenomenon can not be ignored. With the algorithm, strangers can find you easily and you do not even know how they did it. Moreover, a lot of hidden threats can be caused by the algorithm; usually involves fraud or information leak which iItalked about in the first blog.

Social networking using social medias helps people connect with their friends, familes, colleagues, companies or just random groups very conveniently and efficiently. Instead of writing letters and send them to actual mails to connect with people. Social media speed the procedures up without doubts.

Speaking of the convenience of social media. It definitely motivates us to connect with people more often because it is just a matter of clicking fingers. People are motivated to connect with their families and friends because of bonds, with companies and colleagues because of works. This is the network people are in. Furthermore, we often have chances to connect with people that we share the same interest in. For example, tiktok would give user contents based on what they browse frequently, by doing such, users have chances to connect with other users in comment section.

The rewards of public communication are its convenience and efficiency. Rising platforms such as Instagram and Facebook make public communication so much easier. However, the risks of public communication are always around us. Fraud calls and texts are all over the place. And depending on each age groups, leaking information such as banking or addresses happens daily. Making a short videos that reveals peoples surroundings could be a huge hidden threat as well. People really have to be careful with public communication.