Week 2 Reflect Activity

My online identity has always been very small. I tend to be a very private person in the real world and that has been reflected in how I treat my online persona. My Facebook profile has strict privacy settings applied and I have a relatively small number of Facebook friends. I use twitter but do not actively post on it, preferring to just keep up with news that is relevant to me. I have recently signed up for Google plus in order to follow the community based around a subject I am currently studying at university; it remains to be seen how active I am in using Google plus.

I have never created a blog before for the previously mentioned privacy reasons. Creating a blog in a professional sense however does feel more appealing to me. Uploading my reflections, from coursework, for the world to see will be a great first step into blogging; the blog is not a public diary, which is what I find a lot of blogs to be.

My biggest hesitation is that once a blog has been created anything that is written on it will now last forever. Even if the blog is deleted, sites like the “wayback machine” can still provide information that has been posted online. As this blog is purely professional I am less worried about this and am somewhat looking forward to seeing what it is like to keep up a regular blog.

The act of regularly writing for a blog could also be a way for me to remain motivated in my work as well. I have written short stories in the past and I have often thought that if I were to write stories for a blog format that would help to motivate me to write more.  

In the future this may lead to me starting a more personal blog however it would most likely be written under a pseudonym.