--Originally published at Digital Identity
A great aspect of our digital presence is that we can form relationships through it. Our presence is not only the things that we share, it is our human essence. It is how do we make the people around us feel about us. How do they remember us.
Lets talk about being visitors and residents. These are concepts that describe the ways persons engage with the web.
Visitors: Individuals do not leave social trace online. They decide on the task they wish to perform and after completing it they go offline or move on to another task.
Residents: Individuals go online to connect to other people. It is about social presence. It has a degree of social visibility: posting, tweeting or blogging. This type of behaviour leaves a persistent social trace.
We can map the different platforms we use everyday according to this types of behaviors and the degree of personal – institutional usage. By doing this activity we can analyze how we are using these tools.
As an example, here is my personal map.
