Hi Avneet! You’ve done a great job discussing digital identity and how you can relate it to your own experiences in your blog post. I also really love the images and theme of your site! I completely agree, it’s essential to be mindful about who we accept as followers/friends on social media in order to mitigate privacy breaches. I personally briefly fell victim to this! An individual who I believed to be my grandma was messaging me on Facebook and I replied to several of her messages before I realized it couldn’t be her. They started asking for identifiable information that I knew my grandma would know. I quickly blocked the user and made a point to be more mindful accepting requests moving forward. I found a Youtube video that discusses the harm of accepting random friend requests. He describes “information phishing”, where hackers begin to try to hack your passwords by gaining personal information about you. I fear this could’ve happened to me had I not caught on to the imposter early.

Geographic information, your mothers name, and your high school are all examples of “information phishing” that can be used to hack your accounts. An unknown “friend” could easily persuade someone to reveal this information or could find it simply from looking at your account.