Identities on Internet

Hi everyone,

I would like to answer several questions that raised in the class.


1. How many online identities do you have?

I just got four online identities on the Internet. They are Facebook account, Messenger account, Xanga account and this blog - Blogger account. However, when we search my name on the internet, it shows many LEE Kin Wai for the result. Therefore, I use another number 0922 after my name to identify my own account and identity.


2. In what ways are they different to your "in person" identities?

To compare with my own identity, those identities on the Internet is more expressive. The reason is it is too shy for me to express my own feeling in my real life. I need to concern other peoples feeling when I express my feeling. However, on the internet, I can said anything that I want to express, because I can choose to private those thing I type on the internet or I can choose not to provide the link of my blog or Facebook account name to those people, then I can share my own feeling to the people who I want to share to.


3. What are some benefits of expressing one's identity online?

As I said before, I can express my own feeling to my target only. Also, we can use other method rather than Online blog. Messenger is a good way to communicate with other people too. Messenger not only type words, but also can made a video call, then we could talk to other people face to face. Also, Internet included many people, I can share my Facebook and other web page which is about me, then I can make many friends by using my online identity.


4. What are some risks?

Actually, nowadays there are many online cheating or bullying. When we create an account, we need to provide some of our private information to te website, sometimes may need to provide our credit card information. This is a risk about our private. Our information may used in an illegal way. Also, when we post many details or photos about ourself on the internet, those information may be searched and shared to some other webpage that we don't want our information shared on. For example, a photo of a beautiful girl may be linked to a pornography website. This may cause a very bad impact on the girl.


Wai
03-11-2010