Making The World, A Smaller Place.

Image: Information. (n.d.)

A person's perception on life is very much affected by the way they were raised, their school experience, and their friendship choices. Our online identities are somewhat filtered to what we chose to show the digital world. These identities are not always a true version of self or the opposite of self, but are often somewhere in between.  

Google has a goal of organizing the world's information to make a user friendly database. This database has since been available nearly anywhere in the world, creating a network, which users can research; interact, and share information instantaneously. The digital network has allowed humanity to connect in a way never seen before. It creates an open environment where people can learn, research and explore at the touch of a button. (McNiell, 2012)

Changes in technology, first became changes in cultural communities, to trains and people who now own things and are not just oral or even literary, but digital. (Kuttainen, 2016) Nearly everyone in Australia has some sort of an online presence or profile. Today, it is almost impossible not to. We all struggle to control what personal information is accessible to another person via the digital world. Even using a search engine these days, will monitor your searches and tailor the adds on your online account to your searches. In the TED talk, "Your Online Life, Permanent as a Tattoo," Enriquez speaks about how your online profile acts the same way as a tattoo: it shows a lot about you as a person, and it's permanent. The dangers of having an online profile have never been more real, and more unavoidable.

References.

Information. [image]. (n.d.) Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/en/photos/information/

McNeill, L. (2012). There is no "I" in Network: Social Networking Sites and Posthuman Auto/Biography. Biography, 35(1), 65-82. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/webapps/Conc-camcontent-bb_bb60/items/getitem.jsp?as_course_code=13-BA1002-TSV-INT-SP2&content_id=_1242562_1&course_id=_42849_1&doc_id=42357

Kuttainen, V. (2016). BA1002: Our Space, Networks, Narratives, and the Making of Place, week 6.  (PowerPoint Slides). Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/execute/content/file?cmd=view&content_id=_2426299_1&course_id=_76323_1&framesetWrapped=true

Enriquez, J. (2013). Your Online Life, Permanent as a Tattoo. [video file.] Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_how_to_think_about_digital_tattoos?language=en