Blog Assignment 1 (Online Identity)

          In today's day and age social media is a big part of creating and building our identities. We create a personality online of how we want people to view us and see us. We post pictures of what we are doing and with whom we are doing them with. Social media tell people what activities we are interested and what political views we have. A person can learn so much about someone else just by looking at their Facebook. Aside from the social view point that media plays a in creating our identities it also plays a roll in creating our professional lives. For example media makers like us create videos and pictures to share online so people can see what we can do and what we are interested in. This is how potential employers see what type of person we are and how we identify ourselves.
         When it comes to authenticity or anonymity and which one is more important I think that authenticity is the way I would go. When you are being authentic to who you are online there is more of a positive outcome to everything. People who are anonymous online always are negative and post things that offend people because they know there are not consequences. People would never say some of the things that they posted online. Also if you lie online about who you are chances are that the people that you know outside of social media will know that you are lying and that to me is embarrassing. I know we post pictures where we look our best but it's still us at the end of the day.

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