The video below is from Mashable today via Google Reader. As I watched it I pondered the progress of our course in creating our personal identities online. As a whole, the class certainly has added presence online in the form of various accounts and content on pages. We have added some of us to this big thing called the web. Much of it is out there for the world to see. For better or worse. I have wondered all this before.
Yesterday, I added to my Google profile some more “personal” information about me. I followed a couple more people on Twitter, I added a cool Twitter gadget to iGoogle, I added a couple friends to my Reader, I connected with a former student from 14 years ago on Facebook. I Skyped with someone on Berkley, California. Not all of this is “profile” or presence on the web, but it certainly is the web working. Having that sense of control, knowing what the heck is happening, is important. I recall the start of our class and conversations about secret passwords, account names, and internet safety and I wonder what we have learned. Is it safer than we thought? Stranger? More useful perhaps? I hope so. And I hope we continue to share our journeys with each other in some capacity. Like a conversation in a coffee shop.
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