During this first week of blog posts, it was great reading some of the responses from everyone. A lot of people had similar ideas and connections that I had, and I also learned a lot from others!
In response to Breanne:
Breanne, I enjoyed reading your response. I really like your idea of creating a second Instagram account in the future that will be related to teaching. Right now, I have a second Twitter account that I use to follow educational accounts (which we set up in our 336 class!), which is pretty cool, because I can keep track of educational related tweets on it, and then on my personal Twitter I can follow and react to other accounts like meme accounts or celebrities and friends. I hadn’t thought to make another Instagram account, I think I will definitely be doing this! I also thought it was interesting how you mentioned how if a stranger interacts with your post positively, you automatically feel positively towards them. I definitely relate! Social media can be a great source of positivity, but on the flip side you can also have negative experiences (which I hope you haven’t!).
In response to Wei:
Hi Wei! I also enjoyed reading your post, I really liked how you included that diagram of digital identity management. I made a connection to your thoughts about our motivation to participate in public networks, when you mention how our devices recommend things based on what we often search for. I experience this almost every day! Sometimes it can get so creepy when advertisements pop up for something that you had just been thinking about. I remember this time a while back that I was talking to my mom about buying a big inflatable pool toy for the lake that summer, and an hour later an ad popped up for the same thing. I never remembered searching for an inflatable pool toy, but maybe I did, or maybe our devices just listen to us! I think this also ties into your point about the risks of public communications, because when we put ourselves out on the web, our privacy is interrupted. Not always a bad thing, just something to think of every once and a while.