What do we leave behind?
One of the most important things I have learned today from the lecture and notes is that people do not consider what they leave behind in Cyberspace. It is so easy to write about oneself, that you forget your audience is the World Wide Web. Qian and Scott (2007) state that people don't think about the consequences when they disclose too much of themselves online. This is especially true, when people blog about themselves. I would argue that people made the Internet personal... too personal. However, it is important that people keep in mind that what they write in their blogs will stay there forever as digital footprints.
Another point to consider is that when people make use of Facebook or MySpace, they must rethink what they write, especially if the employer has access to their sites. During a survey conducted by Qian and Scott (2007) one of the participants said that "revealing too much personal info thus facing repercussion about something I write negatively about, in particular my employer".
Maybe it is time we rethink what we leave behind online....
Reference
Qian, H., & Scott, C. R. (2007). Anonymity and self-disclosure on weblogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4). Retrieved from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/qian.html
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