What is digital identity? And where can digital identity be applied? How will it affect people’s lives? These are some of the questions that people are asking about digital identity in today’s fast-paced media technology. Certainly, the fact that our lives are now in the age of information networks and information synchronization, whether it is the personal information people use to sign up for accounts on the Internet, including names, addresses, as well as contact information, or some hidden information in the photographs they display in software and on platforms, are all essentially part of the risks people encounter in the information age. People live transparently in a virtual box called the internet, and ironically, countless people choose to show their lives online even though they know the risks of social media platforms.

Digital Identity and the “I”

Digital identities are basically related to the accounts that people have on online platforms and the information that people present on the Internet. This information includes basic personal information (such as name, phone number, email address, and address) but also includes a portion of the social media image that a person presents on the Internet. The person who always dresses simply in real life can be the goddess of elegance on the Internet, and the beautiful girl in real life might be used as a scammer by someone who steals her picture. The internet has always been an intersection of the real and the fake, so frequently the real world sees what the owner of the account wants the viewer to see in software and platforms so that the followers and popularity of those accounts can be converted into a customer base to de-brand the account and generate interest. Certainly, we can’t deny that there are real people in the real world who show their lives for what they are. However, if media platforms are trending towards over-glorification of their image or the creation of a new persona, then who is going to trust the people who are truly being themselves on the internet?

Identity and Internet communities

The fastest way for people to gain an identity on the Internet is to join communities and online groups. These communities and online groups can form separate social and communication circles based on different themes and content, and these social and communication circles have their own separate way of operating the social order. An organized group of Internet users who meet on a virtual platform to discuss and exchange ideas on a particular topic. Users enter the community by logging in with their personal information, and are thus subject to unified management. They can post about the difficulties or challenges they encounter in these topics and thus share their solutions. They can criticize or support the dominant viewpoints, in other words, the Internet community allows countless people with common topics to become a collective and complete their mutual identity. It is important to note that identity is not limited to the outside world agreeing with people’s views, it essentially emphasizes people’s positive and supportive attitudes towards the personalities and online identities that are alluded to through their communication and linguistic styles on social media platforms.

Searching and recognizing your own social media

Life is so dramatic that people are decrying the excessive personal involvement of countless internet users in online platforms that may be affecting people’s own health issues. However, people cannot deny that collecting and identifying their own social media has become an important step. How do you find your digital professional identity? Where do you find your digital professional identity? In fact, the search for a digital professional identity is a process of reanalyzing one’s own identity. The “l” in this case includes your hobbies, your personality, your values, your attitude towards the world. These different personalities allow people to respond to all the people they meet for the first time who want to get involved with them. For example, people who are straightforward will prefer to communicate with people who are sincere and passionate, while those who have a gregarious personality will not be comfortable with people who are overly sensitive. Each person’s personality also suggests that each person has a social comfort zone in which he or she is comfortable and at ease. This means that people who are searching for their digital professional identity should be aware of the kind of people they like to interact with. The next step is for people to become part of a larger group based on their hobbies or preferred content or qualifications, which is narrowed down by combining each person’s personality traits with each person’s social comfort zone. With long-term engagement, people will develop a social circle of friends with whom they can truly connect. Digital professional identities do not mean that people symbolize or objectify themselves, but rather that digital professional identities are essentially social categorizations based on Internet platforms.