Digital Self: Who Am I in the Cyberworld?

Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. Define online identity;

2. Compare real identity versus online identity;
3. Describe the influence of Internet; and
4. Discuss the proper way of demonstrating values and
attitudes online.
INTRODUCTION
These days, more people are becoming active in
using the Internet for research, pleasure, business,
communication, and other purposes. Indeed, the
Internet is of great help for everyone. On the other
hand, people assume different identities while in the
cyberspace. People act differently when they are
online and offline. We have our real identity and
online identity.
The number of people who are becoming more
active online continues to increase worldwide.
More than half of the population worldwide now
uses the Internet. The Internet has already become
an integral part of everyday life for most of the
world’s population. The Philippines is among one
of the countries with the most active Internet
users. (We are Social and Hootsuite n.d.).
 Almost two-thirds of the
world’s population now has
a mobile phone.

FACTS
More than half of the
world’s web traffic now
comes from mobile phones.
More than one in five of the
world’s population shopped
online in the past 30 days.
The digital self is the persona THE CONCEPT OF

you use when you’re online. THE DIGITAL SELF

Some people maintain one or

more online identities that are
distinct from their “real world”
selves; others have a single
online self that’s more or less
the same as the one they inhabit
in the real world.