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.