Peer Response #1- Nando Covelli
Hi Nando, I really enjoyed reading your post this week! In specific, I think you did a spectacular job outlining the differences between professional and personal identities. I think you made an awesome point regarding how difficult it is to seperate these two, especially in a world more digitalized by the day.
I found it interesting the way that you explained how someone should seperate an individuals personal and professional identity through the Visitor and Resident Map. You compared the Visitor and Resident mode as a strategy to seperate personal and professional identities by utilizing both in both settings. Although I think that is a good point and a simple way to understand the influence our actions can have, I think it may miss the complexity needed to truly increase the seperation between our personal and professional digital identities. I think a better strategy could be understanding the power that lies in the content of a post and the influence that that has on your digital identity. Individuals engage as residents more freely than they believe–just because they are not posting images of themself, it does not mean they are not interacting with others. Many social media platforms have an interpersonal component that may not be visible instantly. For example, even if you do not post regularly on Instagram, commenting on your friends post’s, liking posts and sharing them with friends demonstrates an interpersonal component.
As a result, I think two effective strategies to create a seperation between our personal and professional digital identity that can go alongside the Resident and Visitor map, is to be mindful of what you post, and protect your privacy. To be mindful of your posts, it is important to be critical and think of how your post can be cultural sensitive and respectful to ensure that others are clear on the intention behind what you say. I think some other ways to ensure your accounts are seperated is by being cognoscente of your privacy settings. By ensuring that your privacy settings are tight, such as by making a personal Instagram account exclusive to the friends you approve of, it increases the likelihood that you can maintain a seperation between your personal and proffessional accounts
I enjoyed reading your post this week! I look forward to seeing your perspective of the course material in the future!
Peer Response #2- Andrea Pizot
Hello Andrea! I really enjoyed reading your blog post this week! In specific, I really liked the way that you highlighted the differences between professional and personal digital identities and how that can look in a person’s day to day life. As you stated, many individuals utilize social media to share big moments in their life, whether that be a scholarship on their professional LinkedIn, or a trip to Vegas on their personal Instagram. I think you highlighted some efficacious ways to create a seperation between your professional and personal identity such as changing and maintaining privacy, but I think another way is to be mindful of what you post. By being cognoscente to be culturally sensitive and ethical, it reduces the risk that your posts can be taken out of context. Even with the strongest privacy settings, we cannot stop other users ability to screen record and share the intimate moments posted on our private pages with the world.
Additionally, I appreciated your comments on David White’s Visitor and Resident map. As we can see through your personal examples, everyone utilizes social media in such unique ways, especially when comparing personal and professional/academic usage. It was mentioned that as we enter a workforce, our usages of certain platforms such as LinkedIn may increase to reflect our new responsibilities. With that being said, I wonder how other stages in life might influence our presence online. For example, I believe that if an individual enters a stage where they start a family, they may become more of a resident on social media platforms such as Instagram or Facebook as they share the changes in their life and the milestones of their little ones.
Thank you for your post this week! I look forward to reading more in the future!
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