Your Online Identity

Jun 12, 2008 Personal, Personal Development

Thanks for coming back. =). Glad to see you. If there's anything I can do for you, I'd love to hear from you. Drop me an email, or leave a comment, introduce yourself. I'd love to connect with you. Or if you have your own blog, why not let me promote your work?

Was having a chat with a really intelligent friend, Wan Lyn today. She’s apparently been a regular reader of my blog for a while, but I never knew until I met her at the second Social Media Breakfast in Singapore a couple of weeks ago. Talking to her is really interesting because she’s got some great thoughts (which will inspire some other posts for sure).

As a side point, I just want to say that this is the reason why I blog. Above anything else, the pleasure of connecting with new people and making new friends.

But what I want to point out is this. She knew a lot about me because of my blog. When we first talked, she already had judgments about what I was like as a person – and most of it is accurate, in my opinion.

That shows her insightfulness, but more importantly, it shows the power of your online presence. Daryl Tay recently asked a question about how important it is to manage your online identity. And here’s my answer: yes, it is definitely very important. Your online identity reveals a lot about you. People can easily judge and conclude what you are like through your online identity.

In real life, whatever you do and say play a huge part in people’s opinions about you.

Online, that is amplified, especially because the people who are reading it may not yet know you personally.

The chat with Wan Lyn has confirmed the importance of managing your online identity, in my mind at least. Things that I didn’t even put much thought into went some way into forming her opinion about me.

Every little thing on your blog or your online identity – your blog design, what you put on your blog, your style of writing, everything – it all affects what people think of you. And personally, I think it’s really important.

What is your online identity (your blog, Twitter, etc) saying about you?

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  • Derrick Kwa
    Cheyenne: Thanks, I'm glad that the post got you thinking.
  • Interesting post. I'll keep that in mind while I blog. Well put Derrick.

    Cheyennes last blog post..Go have fun!
  • Derrick Kwa
    Wendy: Thanks, glad you like the post.

    Robert: Yeah, I do think I'm sort of an introvert as well. I don't really talk too much, but when I start (when it's something I have an opinion about or am passionate about), it's hard to get me to stop. ;). Glad you think I'm a "pretty cool person", though. =).
  • My guess, you're a very confident introvert =)
    When seeing you at SMB 1, I felt you're pretty cool person, you don't talk a lot but do a lot.
    Robert

    Robert A. Henrus last blog post..Do you make these mistakes in learning?
  • Nice post. :)

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