- What is digital identity?
- Digital identity is an extension of a person online. It Is their digital footsteps and footprints all over the internet. For example, an online Facebook profile or Instagram profile is the person posting about their everyday life, their thoughts, and their interests. It is an online expression and summary of who you are via text, comments, pictures, ideas you share.
- How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?
- Personal approaches to digital identity would be using social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and so on to create a digital version of yourself. It is like an extension of yourself shared on the internet where it can reach a lot of users that would potentially want to connect with you as well. On the other hand, professional approaches to digital identity is when an organization, business, or company is making a digital identity for them to promote their company or to attract potential consumers. The differences between personal and professional is that the latter is to increase potential revenue for their company from selling their goods and services online. On the flip side, personal is to gain a bigger audience or to meet new friends online by sharing your personal insight on topics that are popular during that time.
- How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?
- Digital identities in networked publics make it possible to talk to literally anyone anywhere in the world by just connecting with them on the same platform. The benefits is it brings the whole world together and connects everyone online so easily. However, the impacts it has is digital identities could be made up and fake. Therefore this could have dire consequences like having fake digital identities exist. For example, fake instagram accounts pretending to be a famous celebrity and trying to ask his audience to send him money in exchange for an all inclusive trip. Many benefits come from having digital identities to help the world connect better. But with better connectivity comes bigger risk of false identities and information.
You have a good summary of digital identity, but I think you can write more about the advantages and disadvantages of digital identity in the web. We are putting our personal information at risk when setting up PLN or social media accounts. It’s not just about false identities and information security. As we rely on the Internet, some social platforms require us to complete our personal information to get rewards, but such improved information is very dangerous. These apps will read our address book to introduce some people we may know, which involves our social relationship information. Some apps can also read our online behavior information. There are many aspects of network security, and you can describe more to improve your blog. That’s my suggestion. Great work!