Your online presence can showcase your life, your personality, and other demographic information. Social networks can present to your closest friends’ information such as your relationship status, what you like to do in your free time, where you are from, where you go to school, and who you surround yourself with. But strangers could see this information too. People that you have never met, people that you have met maybe only once in your life, and people that you wish to never see again nor know about what is going on in your life can see any information about you.
In the TedTalk “Your Online Life, Permanent as a Tattoo,” explained exactly that. Juan Enriquez even mentioned that your online presence can last longer than your own body. Even after people die, their online presence remains. How does this make you feel?
Enriquez mentions that as online users, we should pay attention to what we are posting and focusing on online, but also brings awareness to the power of the internet in modern day. For instance, companies are able to look through databases to know who you are. Companies can even use information about you to target you through advertisements.
He even goes to mention Greek mythology and how some people represented rules that everyone should follow in their use of social media. For instance, he mentions that we shouldn’t look into the past of people that we are interested in and that we should not be too vain with our reflections. As an internet user, how will you act now? Will you follow Enriquez’s “rules?” How do you feel that your online presence will be alive long after you may be?
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