I set up this blog as a way of just spilling my guts about the various things I come across and think about during my day. Nothing more to it than that. So when I registered and started blogging, I was quite surprised when I next visited YouTube. A message at the top of the screen said "We notice you have a Google account, would you like to link it to your youtube account?".
Huh?
Link my blog and youtube? I am already debating whether or not to link my blog to facebook. I keep youtube and facebook separate. I've also debated this month whether to link my eBay shop to facebook via a new application to increase sales. Where is all this going to end? All of these sites are merging into one. All of them politely remind me to update my profile. With Facebook, the point is pretty obvious. There are photos of myself, lists of interests and favourite books to share with my friends. But what is the point of a youtube or ebay profile? To what extend is my personality now spread over various websites on the net? Is it a bad thing to have so many profiles?
Profiles that I have-
-YouTube (over 200 favourite videos, 10 subscriptions and 5 uploaded)
-Facebook
-eBay (a sellers profile, with a theme and photo, and "motivations for selling"...)
-Blogger
-Yahoo
-Flickr
-deviantART
Yep, even my bl**dy email account has a profile page, with a little cartoon of me that I can edit to "express myself". On YouTube I can add friends and message people. I can modify the background of my profile and play music, similar to MySpace. With Facebook at least I can control who sees my information, so I can make it as personal as I like. But youtube, ebay, blogger, I like to be anonymous. Sometimes not just anonymous I guess, but someone else. The me in my eBay profile is the me that I need to be to sell things at the highest price. So I need to appear a certain way. Would that be compromised if these people could also see drunk photos of me on facebook? Or if they knew what videos I watched on youtube?
So at the moment I'm keeping most of my profiles un-updated, and separate. I don't want my school friends to know what items I'm selling from my wardrobe. I don't want my colleagues at work knowing what videos I watch on youtube. For now. While I'm not comfortable being exposed online, I think to an extent this trend is inevitable. Something to be embraced in the future?
Huh?
Link my blog and youtube? I am already debating whether or not to link my blog to facebook. I keep youtube and facebook separate. I've also debated this month whether to link my eBay shop to facebook via a new application to increase sales. Where is all this going to end? All of these sites are merging into one. All of them politely remind me to update my profile. With Facebook, the point is pretty obvious. There are photos of myself, lists of interests and favourite books to share with my friends. But what is the point of a youtube or ebay profile? To what extend is my personality now spread over various websites on the net? Is it a bad thing to have so many profiles?
Profiles that I have-
-YouTube (over 200 favourite videos, 10 subscriptions and 5 uploaded)
-eBay (a sellers profile, with a theme and photo, and "motivations for selling"...)
-Blogger
-Yahoo
-Flickr
-deviantART
Yep, even my bl**dy email account has a profile page, with a little cartoon of me that I can edit to "express myself". On YouTube I can add friends and message people. I can modify the background of my profile and play music, similar to MySpace. With Facebook at least I can control who sees my information, so I can make it as personal as I like. But youtube, ebay, blogger, I like to be anonymous. Sometimes not just anonymous I guess, but someone else. The me in my eBay profile is the me that I need to be to sell things at the highest price. So I need to appear a certain way. Would that be compromised if these people could also see drunk photos of me on facebook? Or if they knew what videos I watched on youtube?
So at the moment I'm keeping most of my profiles un-updated, and separate. I don't want my school friends to know what items I'm selling from my wardrobe. I don't want my colleagues at work knowing what videos I watch on youtube. For now. While I'm not comfortable being exposed online, I think to an extent this trend is inevitable. Something to be embraced in the future?
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