--Originally published at Identidad digital
What’s up my peeps,
So we are on our third day of the “Digital Identity” course. Today we are exploring the visitor/resident concept. Before this course I did not know anything about that matter. “Visitors” are people that visit a website and do not leave any trace of their presence there, on the other hand, “Residents” are the ones that leave a trace.
The platforms that I consider myself a resident of are: Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Hotmail because I am constantly using them and interacting with machines and people through them all the time. Speaking about identity on those sites I think I am pretty constant about my “personality” in all of them I am always the same person but I share different quantities of my personality in each.
Another aspect about being resident or visitor is the personal and professional approach. In my experience I try to be as “professional” as possible in all platforms because you never know who is going to see that information. I have heard about cases where school teachers posted pictures of them having alcoholic drinks and losing their jobs because of that. Hence I try to be cautious with all my actions and posts, which I think it should not be like that but society is very hypocrite in that sense: people say that you should be free, and do whatever you want with your life but there is always people judging you, I mean, sometimes giving your opinion is seen as a bad thing, anyways that’s a whole other topic.
As a conclusion each person has a different background that may affect whether they are visitors or residents in different websites and places. There are no rules nor correct answers.
