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Online Presence As the online environment becomes more prevalent to everyday life, a personal and professional presence online becomes the norm as individuals began to discover the need to differentiate between the two. When it comes to online presence conflicts can come up between what one’s personal self and one’s professional self-online. As online personalities continue to grow, there becomes dialectics or conflicts between what one’s personal and professional online presences are. The major conflict that comes between personal and professional online presence is whether there should be a distinguishing quality between the two. Individuals attempt to separate whom they are personally; from who they should show professionally. According to the article Balancing the personal and professional, you start diluting the power of your unique perspective when you separate the …show more content…

Online social media has made it increasingly easy to google a name and find links between both a professional identity that one has created, as well as the personal identity. Both online professional as well as the online personal identity are not separate but for how one makes them so. Who are individuals truly online? One attempts to assume that there is a difference in the authentic self of who they are to the professional world and who they are in the personal world. The concept of the “authentic self” online in relations to professional identities is that every identity is still authentic. According to the article, Digital Technology, Trauma, and Identity: Redefining the Authentic Self of the 21st Century, the authentic self-online involves the ability to split into many identities, that are each authentic in itself (Weber-Patrick, 2014). The concept is that we create what we already

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