Positive Online Identity

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Our main topic for today is Positive Online Identity and I am gonna talk about what is Online Identity and its benefits and its disadvantages.

WHAT IS ONLINE IDENTITY?

Online identity, also internet identity, is a social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites. It can also be considered as an actively constructed presentation of oneself. Although some people choose to use their real names online, some Internet users prefer to be anonymous, identifying themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying amounts of personally identifiable information. An online identity may even be determined by a user's relationship to a certain social group they are a part of online. Some can even be deceptive about their identity.

Online Identity is also known as digital identity. 

WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF ONLINE IDENTITY?

 Pros:

1. Representation

Knowing what your intentions are when using social media is the first step to figuring out how to represent yourself. Does your identity need to represent your social life or your professional persona?

There are so many ways for people to find you online these days. Friends, family, potential employers can all see what you’ve been up to, so the way you represent yourself can be very important. Imagine that you’ve applied for a professional job and your potential employer goes on the Internet to find out more about you. If they find lots of photos of you partying and negative comments, then would this have an effect on their decision to employ you or not? But if they found that you were using your online presence to network, share information related to your work etc., then this could have a positive effect on their decision to employ you.

When representing yourself online think how you can use your social profiles as tools to create opportunities in the real world.

2. Expression

To express yourself is widely encouraged on social media and there are various platforms and options out there to choose how you’d like to do this. You may choose to express yourself through videos on YouTube, conversations on Twitter or pictures on Instagram – there are loads more to choose from too.

For people that have been victims in real life, like being bullied, expressing yourself online can be a safer environment to do this, as there can be a lot of encouragement given online. But with the encouragement comes judgement as well, thinking specifically about TROLLS. But there are things you can do to protect yourself from hate before it even reaches you.

3. Community

So, you’ve found what interests you and now you’d like to meet some likeminded people. There are thousands of online communities and groups who interact daily, finding one another based off the content posted to their profiles.

This can be the perfect opportunity for you to start conversations, share knowledge on specific topics and broaden your horizons on things of interest to you.

Online communities can often be brought to life as many arrange meet ups and networking events-make sure you attend these in public venues ONLY and let others know your whereabouts.

WHAT ARE THE DISADVANTAGES OF

 POSITIVE ONLINE IDENTITY?

1.Exclusion Errors

  Stringent ID requirements can generate non-trivial costs in terms of exclusion and   inconvenience to genuine beneficiaries.

2.Privacy and data misuse concerns:

Biometric authentication raises important privacy and data misuse concerns. There has been major pushback in India and Kenya to biometric national ID systems due to concerns regarding safety and misuse of collected data. Large data sets have been shown to have great power in surveillance, as well as predicting and shaping people’s decisions. In light of this, it is crucial to ensure that strong data privacy and security legal frameworks and systems are in place.

THANK YOU AND I HOPE YOU GOT MORE IDEAS ABOUT POSITIVE ONLINE IDENTITY AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!