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.
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Hi Atalaya! I really enjoyed your post. I found it very informative and your use of various multimedia tools kept it super engaging! I can appreciate that you like to post content as means to share your life with friends and family who don’t live near to you, as I do the same! Using nicknames on personal account is a good way to promote privacy on social media. I found an article that argues nicknames on social media are valid for more than protecting privacy and that we should consider implementing them more often. I personally agree with this sentiment and believe that it also helps differentiate the tone I want for that account. For example, I remember creating second Instagram accounts in high school, used for simply sharing funny pictures of my friends and memes. I gave this account a funny username to set it apart from my main account.
Hi Brooklyn! I really enjoyed the perspective you provided in your blog post on digital identity. I appreciate that you highlighted that digital identity also includes online interactions, as I feel that a lot of the conversation surrounding digital identity only refers to profile curation. This made me think about the ways in which people comment on viral videos. I’ve noticed that people tend to comment harshly particularly on videos with thousands of views because they assume a form of anonymity. Obviously this is not the case and leads to the creation of a negative digital identity.
It’s true that posting violent or drug/alcohol related content has the potential to tarnish future employment opportunities. My dad is a landlord and has shared that his initial assessment of a potential tenant is a review of their FaceBook page. He’s stated that if the profile pictures include drug/alcohol related content, he no longer considers their application. Contrarily, this article provides interesting insight into the importance of avoiding other type of content, not necessarily just drinking. I don’t personally feel that this has to do too much with a person’s character, however it’s important to note that some people feel otherwise.