Mae's identity

My identity in person 

As the book in my class suggests ways to explain how I display my identity by my clothes, tone of my voices, what I say, and my gestures and body languages. it is hard for people to know my true identity because I always dress and act differently on different occasions. For example, I always dress formal by wearing fitted clothes and heels for my work while I always wear casual clothes when I attend classes. To dress casually, I usually wear trousers or dark jeans with blouses or t- shirt to feel warm and comfortable. In the weekend, I love to wear short dresses or skirts with high heels or flat shoes or sneakers. People will never see me in distressed jeans and washed jeans because they always wash me out. Also, I never wear t-shirt and shorts with flip flops in a city. However, I love to wear red and vivid colour clothing to boost my energy as I always think that I dress for myself. With this, I think it gives people a little hint that I am an energetic person.

Moving to other expressions, my tone of voices, I sound younger than my real age because I have a naturally high tone of voice and I am a fast speaker. Although I try to hide them by lower my tone and speak slower when I am around with unfamiliar people, I lose it sometimes when I feel nervous. I have to ask my listener a few times if I speak too fast. Then, my tone of voices will drop naturally if I speak slowly. In this way, I think people will understand what I am trying to say more clearly. In addition, I am not afraid to show my feeling and I truthfully express my thought for something that matters. Sometimes, I don’t know whether people agree for what I say or they are too polite to silence their opinions that they disagree with. Lastly, I am not sure what my gestures and body languages can describe about me. My family and close friends told me that I am a nice person but get angry easily. They can tell by my facial expression and especially in the eyes. However, I always thinks that I look friendly because I always receive good services wherever I go.

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My identity online 

I use different types of social media platform to stay connected to friends or create connections. It is another way to contact me other than phone or email. I also use social media to protect my name from being use by someone else online in the purpose of cybercrime. In this way, it prevents someone to create fake account in my name. However, I prefer to protect my privacy safe on social media as much as I can. Although I do not wish anyone to find my personal details, including my Facebook and LinkedIn,  I use my first name and last name on both platform. My profile pictures in Facebook is more casual than LinkedIn because their different purposes. I use Facebook to stay connected to friends while I use LinkedIn to create connections and find jobs.

On my Facebook, there are no details for my birthday, schools, workplace, marital status or my political preference because I am a person who prefer to keep personal details with myself.  My friends should have known my details when we talked in person. I don’t like to present information on records because it could affect my jobs in the future. I have to be careful as anything that is written online will stay on the Internet forever. I post on Facebook once a month to remind my existent to my friends. I often show my positive side of my cooking, restaurants or my travel on Facebook. In addition, I regularly comment good things on my friends’ post. I found that it is a great delight to send good vibes and create good energy to friends. For my LinkedIn profile, it shows my education, workplaces and all necessary experiences the same as my resume. There are no irrelevant personal details for job application. It is easier to make good connections when you have something in common with someone such as, school, university, common friends and common workplace. However, I still have concern about friends on social media. I believe people can show themselves in real life better than online. It is much harder to lie when you physically know someone.

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Conclusion: How accurately my online identity communicates who I am

As I protect my privacy information on social media, I don’t share my personal details. Any strangers or online friends who found my profile online will not know who I really am. On social media, people will know me as I want to show them. My online identity is only a place where I can tell the world that I exist. Therefore, I provide necessary information for each platform in different purposes for the result I want to achieve.