Having an Online Presence - Good or Bad

So you have an online presence, your name is typed into a google search engine and whalaa, there you are, a little personal history, organizations and social media's you joined, good and bad things you are involved in or done, how does this impact your life, good or bad ?

I suppose it depends on what kind of personality you have, deeds you have done, outlook on life social status etc. Here I can only give my opinion and thoughts as I experienced 1st hand, so I am not putting words into mouths of others but highlighting my opinion.

I always say, the life you live is the legacy you will leave behind, let's face it, we are not immortal and the day will come when we have to say goodbye to this world, how will we be remembered. This is a thought I live my whole life with in the forefront of my memory, not that I care too much about other's opinion of me, but I care about how I will be remembered.

The good thing about an online presence is the speed at which one is able to communicate worldwide on various platforms, whether it be for business or pleasure, or even highlighting the plight of others. Long lost friends or family can track you down and get in touch once again, we hear of so many heart-warming stories. How easily we can rally each other to a good cause and making a difference to so many lives due to our caring for others near and far.

Also, on the good side, we do not have to put ourselves in harms way when needing to perform fundamental tasks, such as we are experiencing during this devastating Covid 19 Worldwide Pandemic, online ordering, working from home, communication and entertainment.

The bad things about an online presence is there are a small percentage of deliberate and malicious individuals who thrive on preying on the naive, desperate and inexperienced by means of scams, hacking and other adverse online activities. Also, when you are a generally bad person doing bad things thinking it goes unnoticed by most.

Also, bad is when we supposedly lose our privacy when we have an online presence, now here I will step on many toes, but what the heck I've come so far. No one in their sober minds will create an online presence without thinking they will remain unnoticed and private, it is the modern age we live in, computers, cell phones etc. keeps us in the public eye. Why would anyone be scared of being spied on if they have nothing to hide.

The minute you leave your house you are in the public eye, unless you wear a great disguise.

So to sum up, I think the good outweighs the bad here, lots of us make a living online, communicate online and get entertained online, imagine a world without this great technology we have today, progress would be stunted, the old days were great but let's face it human nature is to progress and evolve, got you thinking hey !!!

Let's have your 2 cents worth,

All the best