Its been 24 hours in web 2.0 and thats a long time…
And *puff* Oh look another social networking site, another profile to create, another set of passwords, profile tags, user names etc to remember. YUK!
Ever get the feeling that your digital identity is getting slowly eroded away across the social space stratosphere. So much so that your friends and colleagues do not know where to find you anymore. In fact you have forgotten where to find you!..
Well it seems that rescue may be imminent in the form of a new piece of techno wizardgery in the guise of a widget called ShowYourself. Basically (after a quick play around) it combines all your profiles that span across the web into one rather fetching widget that you can place on your blog, website, even social network profile to show ‘where’ you may be and in what form. Handy, if a bit fiddly to begin with, suddenly though you can expose yourself on multiple fronts.
Which brings me rather nicely onto my next query, does one want to indicate the multiple possibilities of your identity and where you can be hunted down? One of the reasons that I have numerous accounts in different places is that they are designed for different networks; I would rather my more formal Linkedin contacts did not know, or try to seek out, my more personal Flickr account etc. The complexity here then appears to be not only identity profiling, but rather the undercurrent perceptions of identity management. In terms of the new widget in its favour it does let one select exactly which profiles to display so you can custom-tailor your possible web exposure.
Of course what would be a truly useful piece of widgetery action is one that logs in simultaneously to all your accounts and manages them for you. So to follow on from Nicole’s posting theme; one widget to rule them all!
About Dr Mariann Hardey
I hold the position of Lecturer in Social Media Marketing at Durham Business School. I also spend too much time enjoying social technologies, media+ stuff. That'll make me a Geek then. And a gal.
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