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During week 4, we did a comparisson between personal and a professional digital identity. We also discussed social media privacy, ethic, and data security and performed a personal privacy mapping. We also discussed various contexts of social media use. The mapping includes personal versus institutional continuum on one side and visitor versus resident on the other side. These activities helped me to determine my engagement with the web and technology. In the visitor mode, digital spectrums are used without leaving social traces behind and once the intended task is completed, the tool is discarded. In the resident mode, the goal is to establish social media presence and connect with people, a relationship that leaves many social traces (Regan & Jesse, 2019). Figure 1 is a mapping of my social media engagement.

Another important part is whether social media is used for personal or institutional context. In the personal context, the language and interactions are mainly non-formal (White, 2017). However, formalities are observed in the institutional context. For example, when I use the work email, LinkedIn, and the blackboard, I have to observe all formalities pertaining to that institution. At times, I am a resident as I leave a few social traces behind. I use google, Mi community, and skillshare as a visitor and in personal context. Research sites such as research gate and ibisworld are used in the institutional and visitor context. However, Facebook, wordpress, and youtube are highly interactive and leave many social traces.

The digital identity also matters in any PLN. As part of learning activities, I undertook a privacy quiz that helped me to navigate my behavior on social media that relate to my privacy, security, and ethical code. This will help me to protect my privacy, data, and observe ethics when using social media for interactive learning and other social media use contexts.

References

The Digital Visitor and Resident Continuum White. D. (2017). V and R Mapping. Retrieved from http://daveowhite.com/vandr/vrmapping/

Privacy, Ethics & Security in Digital Spaces Developing Awareness of Privacy. https://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/quizzes/privacy-and-surveillance/ Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019).

Visitor & Resident Maps http://experimental.worldcat.org/vandrmapping/signIn

What is a digital identity?

My digital identity is my social media profile that is based on the things I post, read, comment on, share, and like. It consists of all information about me that is available online and contains unique behavioral patterns and identifiers that can be tied to me.  The data that forms by digital identity can be grouped into either my digital activities or my digital attributes. These two sources of information can be used by companies, organizations, employers, electronic devices, and new friends to identify me.

 How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?

Digital activities are the behavioral patterns such as purchase history, search queries, forum posts, downloading apps, signed petitions, Geotagging, and other activities such as likes, posts, comments, and shares. Digital attributes consist of things like birth date, bank details, medical histories, login credentials, biometrics, email address, badges & tokens, and government issues identifiers such as driving license and national ID.

What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

The things I like are based on the pages and people I follow, including friend’s posts, local and international news, celebrity posts, comedy, sport, politics, entertainment, gym & fitness, and fashion. The social media platforms that I used frequently include Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I mostly use Twitter when searching for the latest news about the economy, politics, and trending topics. Whenever I want to interact with friends and view celebrities, entertainment, gym & fitness, and fashion posts, I mostly use Instagram and Facebook. I use LinkedIn to view activities that are related to my career, including the latest jobs, business opportunities, company performance, and career growth.

Source: mydigitalfootprint.com

Anybody looking for my digital identity will find me posting more on Instagram, and Twitter and posting less on LinkedIn and Facebook. Most of my posts on Instagram activities include personal photos, commenting on posts mainly on entertainment, fashion, celebrity, and gym & fitness. On Twitter, I mainly follow renowned politicians, news and media sources, economic news sources, and trending topics. Although I like reading comments, I rarely post my views if I think it will hurt anyone. This is part of my character because my golden rule is to “do what I would like to see others do to me.”

References

Identity-Making and Social Media – Spracklen, Karl https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137405876_6

Digital professional identity: Dear Internet! Who am I? http://tinyurl.com/y53m4tuj

Understanding your Online Identity. https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Understanding-your-Online-Identity-An-Overview-of-Identity.pdf