Internet Identity

How does someone define their identity on the internet? Is it by what people know about them, or what comes up when they search for themselves on Goggle?

These days someone’s identity on the internet can be defined by a number of things. There is so much more personal information put on the internet than ever before. Have you ever goggled yourself and wondered where some of the information came from? One of the first things that pop up from your search is probable something from Facebook or Twitter . The most common places to build you’re so called internet identity these days.

Your identity on the internet is more of a collection of all information about you that has been put on the internet. It ranges from things like Facebook, to papers you might have written for school, to online games you are a part of, to activities you have participated in, or even to organizations you are a part of.  Your internet identity will be defined by the amount personal information you put on the internet. As more of our personal information is put on the internet the more accessible it is to others. This is why people need to be more aware of what they are putting on the internet. Once information is on the internet it is there for good, as the Social Network movie put it correctly “The internet isn’t written in pencil Mark, it’s written in ink.” Whenever you do Google your name, the search engine will pull your name from where ever it finds it.