It is a terrifying thought to see how much of your actual
identity is online. Anyone in the whole world could see your profile on
Facebook and know something about you. It doesn’t matter what it is but they
have that one thing that they know about you. They may know what football team
you like, where you live, what job you have, what school you go to or even how
you look like if you decide to add a profile picture. For instance, if I
somehow lost all my memory and only remember my social media login and
passwords I bet I could retrieve most of my information about myself than I
could have imagine.
I am a person who updates their profile picture on Facebook
once a year, writes a status once a month, has no Instagram, has Twitter but
what can 144 characters say about myself if I am not a constant Tweeter? Yet
despite the limitations I have set in terms of my social media usage, people
will have a good idea of who I am on social media. They know where I am from,
what I am doing, my like and dislikes, the way I talk, practically everything.
My memory could go from zero to hundred by going through social media because
that is where home is for constant social media users. Frightening.
Of course I am not that stupid enough to reveal everything
online. You cannot trust the internet by all means. I have friends on Facebook
but no way do I know 500+ people let alone call them ‘friends’. Personal information
is kept offline because the internet is a nasty place that cannot be trusted despite
it being a norm to life. I am more open in real life and there is so much more
to discover about me than there is online. I am lazy to update my profile on
Facebook as I really don’t have the time to do so. I hardly update my likes and
dislikes because looking at them right now there is no chance that I follow the
same YouTubers on Facebook as I did 5 years ago. Time changes.
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