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Reading my fellow peers posts on whether having multiple online identities is necessary is bugging me. At the end of the day, i believed there is no definite answer as it depends on how YOU manage your own personal account. Novina comments on my post that there is an employee who was fired after photo of her smoking is posted online, this would not have happened if she have set her twitter setting to ‘private’, or another way would be to have a separate account for personal use and one for professional.

I agree on Kelly about how having multiple identities reduces one credibility. People will cast doubts over whether this account belongs to you because there are people who is trying to impersonate as the owner of their page and carry out malicious act. Remember, the more accounts you have, the more risk you run having your account hacked.

I liked how aetiiqcaz has the same view as me on how having a wild photo of yours on social media should not affect the way employer see you as an employee. However he brings me a question of how it will tarnish a company reputation have set me to think twice on this issue. My thoughts/reply is again, managing your privacy setting!

Lastly kelly and zoie (limmingru) thoughts on how marketers can retrieve more information about consumer’s buying behavior by tracking their usage pattern, this brings the question of ethical? Are these consumers consent to having their personal information leaked?

In conclusion, this topic sets me thinking about whether to create a separate account between personal and professional which is something i have never thought before as i felt it is sufficient to have just one. It also astonishes me how many employers are actually ‘looking at you’ online and we must be careful of what we post online.

My 2 comments:

Zoie (limmingru): https://crossingthought.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/online-identity-one-or-more/

Aetiiqcaz: https://aetiiqcaz.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/one-girlfriend-or-more-hmm/