What is a digital identity?
If you are a university student in reality, but for the people in the networked public, you can also be a blogger who is sharing thoughts every day or a very good video producer. This is one of the attractions of digital identity. A digital identity refers to how others perceive you in the networked publics, through you personal platform and the blogs or tweets you post. In more detail, your portrait, your profile, and the way you interact with other will shape your personal image into other people’s impressions of you.
How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?
A personal digital identity refers that people usually share their daily life and mood on the social media and chat with friends through the chatting platform. A professional digital identity can be the promotion of a company, or the account of a university professor who wants to share their academic knowledge. Upon these, it is more inclined to some professional knowledge or the contents about the account. For example, one of my friends’ Instagram account is used to share their pictures. Inversely, all the posts of “Dior” official account on Instagram are about their products and business partnerships. This is one of the differences between the personal and professional digital identities.
How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?
A digital identity can reflect a person’s personality as well as characteristics. For those who are frank, they can be willing to express their feelings and share their thoughts in the networked public. But on the contrary, what would an introvert person be like in the networked public? In fact, there are many introvert people can express themselves and communicate with others online with no obstacles so that no one would consider this is an introvert person in the real life. Overall, one of the benefits of the digital identities is “the disguise” because it provides an introvert person with an opportunity to recognize the other self.
