User talk:Rachelmm0037

Visibility online My visibility online is definitely clear and accessible through my online footprint. Due to my multiple social media accounts, where I am public on most of these platforms. However I try to keep my Facebook as private as possible as I find Facebook is the most visible platform in terms of finding people. Holding a plethora of information from address, phone number, pictures and education it's far easier to locate someone on Facebook than other social media sites. Therefore I keep information hidden and my profile is completely private to those who aren't friends with myself. Correspondingly I don't share anything personal on Facebook as there isn't the security of privacy in comparison to other media sites where I can hide behind a username. However, this can be difficult to escape as many sites converge with each other for example Instagram and Facebook can be joint publicly when allowed by the user.

The forms of visibility that I undertake are all through social media, ideas, thoughts, pictures, likes all content I am happy to share in the public sphere. Though on cross-examining my social platforms viewers could identify my basic likes and dislikes in tv shows, films, hobbies, birthday, location, my political stance and my immediate friendship group. Though these are personal things, I see them as only surface level small talk category topics, nothing too invasive, this isn't intimate information, therefore I am happy to share it.

When it comes to who I decide to share my content with this varies depending on the platform. Again, on Facebook I am more private and it's more a case of I decide who sees what. Through friending/ unfriending people I like/ dislike which feels more personal as I know the people. In contrast with other platforms especially strangers I unfollow/ follow depending on the content they provide.

So to, the content other users and myself provide is arguably manipulated as no one's profile is completely shut off. You can still share and like peoples posts you aren't friends with therefore control is limited. Especially if you have created a viral video the content is traced back to you as the source. Additionally google images gathers our social media pictures. A simple google image of someone's name and their account appears as the source of the photograph. Tailored adverts and cookies both feed off tracking our information to provide advertising we've shown an interest in. The fact that our information is gathered and then regurgitated into the form of an advert which follow us from site to site would argue we have little control. The only way to refrain from entering this cycle would be to become silent on social media. Even then the terms and conditions of social media sites allows them to delve into our information and sell it on.

Our online visibility also coincides with the 'Always On' culture the topic of my collaborative essay. Visibility merges with the always on notion as even though we may not be online, or our profile might be private we still exist online and are visible to others. 139.153.71.211 (talk) 11:18, 5 March 2018 (UTC)