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Today we talked about our online presence and how we present ourselves to viewers, we shape our online profiles to show the best most interesting side of ourselves. With how blurred the lines are between the online world and the real world, I wonder how much of peoples online personas is attaching itself to their real life personality? Whilst most of us would prefer to keep some kind of anonymity with our online profiles letting others see what we want them to see, companies such as Google are making this more difficult to achieve in modern times. Is it a good idea for our boss to see what we get up to on the weekend? In modern times we have to be more aware with what information we release to the online world, where as back say five years ago we rarely thought about it, we have realised that once we publish something online we have very little control if any as to what happens to that information or who has access to it.

After class our group chatted more on Facebook about the presentation.




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