My online identity by jeremiah conley

Well if you look me up online I am basically invisible but there is a reason for that. I never use my actual name for any social media in general because I would ( like most people ) would not like to be judged for what I post online. Even though I do not post anything negative on them and if it is offensive to some people I will take it down. I do not  really  think people judge me for this  because they would most likely agree with me on that subject so I don’t think a lot of people would judge me at all. Usually when i want to post something I consider if the content is to offensive, disgusting or just stupid in general because if you get a job interview they will look up your social media to see if you get hired or not. I always think of the future so if i think of posting a certain thing i’ll stop and consider it before hand.

  There are some pros and cons for sharing online there is always a high chance that an internet troll will always  try to get a response out of you just because they enjoy it.  some people will be envious of your lifestyle but it may not be true there are even more pros and cons so watch what you post.  Sometimes there is a Lack of control for example one girl had a list of every person she had relations with it had every detail she sent it to 3 friends and after that she lost control of the situation , for permanence a Mother put a picture of her daughter , people online then begun to make memes ( pictures with captions) and that became stuck online forever. Then there is Immediacy when some people post certain things it may bring a crowd of urgency, when nicki minaj posted something online to criticize the picture people started to go into a panic well it is more like they started to talk about  her even though she said that it should not be a costume.

When you think about your potential employers looking through your accounts you may think of these questions: why are they going through my Instagram account?, or why is that even needed. Well when they are going into your accounts they are trying to find what type of person you are and reasons they should or should not hire you. For example in Tech class we examined one anonymous person’s twitter account and what she had posted, there were posts saying she would do some illegal things at home, vulgar language and other offensive things that would most likely that would not get her the job. She may have had free speech , which is the ability to say whatever she wants but on some social media it is just not accepted. Only the things such as obscene was on her account and I do not think I would have hired her because of those things.

There are even things online known as an internet troll . They basically make your day worse by posting rude or very indecent messages to other people. They may even show up on your social media account as well. They really only want a response out of you so I think the best way to  deal with them is to ignore them but some people could not do that so I would also suggest deleting the comments and try not to think about it.  There really is not a way to stop trolling but we can win the situation by not giving them what they want which is a response from you or make a thing such as a comment war. The only way we could stop them is by not giving them the attention they want that and like I said earlier you can delete the comments and We could all sign a petition that  negative and rude comments would be banned from social media.

They could always post anonymously there are some benefits and cons to that. One thing is that like the name you would not know who they are which is a benefit for them but mostly negative time for you because they can keep coming back and back but here's is a good side for you they can always be tracked down by police if they threaten you but they can be banned still even if anonymous even in some social media they would not be able to comment on the image and or blog like Ifunny.

Here are some tips to help you survive social media

1. Watch out for what you post because you never know who sees it.

2. Do not engage in the internet trolls just do what I said like ignore them and delete that comment.

3. The last one ladies and gents is to always make sure that you keep private information to yourself and never post on social media cause if you do it can ruin your life.