Comments on: When Real Life Interrupts: Maintaining Separate Images & Personas

By: Singapore Escorts

Singapore Escorts — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:00:56 +0000

Happy belated 21st birthday. Hey, can you picture yourself 21years later……get the picture??? Anyway, you have a long road ahead and you have already come this far. Congrats for that.

By: Singapore Escorts

Singapore Escorts — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:00:56 +0000

Happy belated 21st birthday. Hey, can you picture yourself 21years later……get the picture??? Anyway, you have a long road ahead and you have already come this far. Congrats for that.

By: Singapore Escorts

Singapore Escorts — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:00:56 +0000

Happy belated 21st birthday. Hey, can you picture yourself 21later……get the picture??? Anyway, you have a long road ahead and you have already come this far.

By: Italian Restaurant

Italian Restaurant — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:58:27 +0000

That sounds to be a great birthday celebration. Look forward to see those photos !

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:00:11 +0000

Hi Cordiva, This is a great question that more folks should be asking themselves. Im 38 years-old and believe that I have sorted my way through this dilemma over the past 10 years or so. I've decided that maintaining multiple personas online is unhealthy and unrealistic. Here's my advice:

1) Focus on the person you want to be. This sounds new-age kooky, but it's legit. If you are going to be embarrassed by a picture of you, think about stopping the embarrassing behavior, rather than the photograph. The older you get, the easier this gets.

2) Never post anything online that could be damaging to you professionally or personally. Avoid posting questionable content about your friends and ask them to do the same for you.

Note that this doesn't mean you should mix your professional and personal information online. On your professional blog, for instance, it's a good idea to keep personal information to a minimum; simply because the personal stuff is not interesting for most of your readers. So, it's perfectly reasonable to have personal and professional "spaces" online - but don't attempt to maintain them as separate identities. Call them what they are - different spaces targeted at different consumers - but all different facets of the same you.

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Busby SEO Test — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:50:23 +0000

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By: Find Knowledge

Find Knowledge — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:01:46 +0000

hi corvida!

21 is such a great age to discover one's self. congratulations on your “two” personas, its still healthy to maintain separate interests in one character. have fun, don't be apologetic for being alive :)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:47:13 +0000

Hi there Corvida :)

I wrote a sort of follow-up answer post on my blog, in short my answer is show everyone your personalities, both are you, and just because you show one part of yourself here, doesn't mean readers can't be aware of the other :)

By: smernit

smernit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:30:23 +0000

Corvida–my advice is to post a few, but keep the really down and dirty ones in an area marked friends and family only (or whomever you want). In other words be yourself, but don't hit everyone too hard.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:37:38 +0000

Hi Corvinda, good post, quite the modern dilemma :) I can relate, I am 29 and quite tattooed having worked in the music industry for a long time, now I find myself working on a parenting site (and being a Mum). Love my tattoos, no doubt, but I refrain from posting images of myself of this nature because unfortunately as it is – people do discriminate and develop pre-conceived notions about you – and a reputation is a very hard thing to shake. Some people/companies might instantly dismiss you for a promotion. Although there are quite a few very tattooed men as work, I still feel discrimination is at play for women.

I say keep them private and work more on amalgamating your personas.
Good luck.