Photography and Construction of Identity by Blogging

This blog discusses the use of photography and social media for constructing an online identity. It covers the effectiveness and limitations of various social media platforms for building relationships and interactions with online communities. The author shares personal experiences and strategies for creating an online presence through photography and blogging.

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Photography and construction of identity by blogging
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Photography is a great way to spending time and capturing moments. This involves the
practice of capturing still images from a specific background using high definition equipment
made only for that purpose. For choosing a perfect shot, a photographer needs to choose the
appropriate lens and film and then frame it according to the perfect shot required. In addition, the
photographer can also use filters and lights for achieving enhancement features in the picture.
This blog will present various photography materials, which will be used to share with friends
and familiar persons. In addition, this blog will also be used to undertake various online identity-
based measures for safe blogging.
Construction of an online identity
Identity is a way people recognize us and interact with us. Social identity is a method for
online identification, which is used to make a name in the online community. The construction of
online identities in the social world is a great way to increase awareness (Best, Manktelow and
Taylor 2014 p. 28). The basic sites used for this are the social media sites, which quickly makes
an impression in front of the minds of the users. The main concept used in any social media site
is that users engage in the posts created and this, in turn, creates an impression among other
people who are engaging in that post for the first time. Using these methods, the construction of
an identity in the online world is very easy.
Aspect of online identity
I use the blog post for posting pictures related to photography because I am very
passionate about it. I mainly use Instagram for sharing my pictures. The moments that have been
captured by me are posted on my Instagram feeds (Forbes 2013 p. 107). Moreover, I also take
pictures of beautiful places whenever during my visit to different countries. This is done by

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maintaining a private profile in Instagram where only my friends and families will be able to see
my statuses. In addition to this, I also use Snapchat for sharing my daily routine pictures in it like
going to a store or posting information about the weather. For Snapchat, the audience related to
my posts is only my friends and my family as I use a private profile, which cannot be seen by
everyone (Forbes 2013 p. 107). Facebook is another platform that is very effective in making an
online identity. This platform is used by many people and this is the sole reason I use to make an
online identity. However, I only use this platform for participating in online group conversations.
This usually denotes the University group work or group assignments. I would like to use it for
sharing my photos by creating a page. Another social media platform, which I use to make a
name for myself, is the Twitter. This is a great place where people share posts, which are termed
as tweets. These tweets carry information or some regular status update. I use this platform for
sharing some facts, memes, news and quotes related to photography. However, I am trying to use
it the right way to getting maximum exposure.
Lastly, I use the Whatsapp messenger application to communicate with my friends and
family. The Whatsapp messenger is a Smartphone application, which is used to communicate via
texts or multimedia messages utilizing internet access (Kim and Ko 2012 p. 1483). As I study
abroad, I use it to keep contact with my family and friends. However, the use of this application
is basically adopted for conversing with only the people I know.
Effectiveness and limitations
The effectiveness of these adopted processes can be seen directly by the influence it
creates. A social media is an effective tool for getting users committed to the services or products
(Majchrzak et al. 2013 p. 52). This, in turn, increases the engagement of the product or the

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service in the market and this helps in creating an online presence in the market. All the above-
mentioned platforms will be used to create an online identity for myself and I will post more
photography related content. There are major limitations of these applied strategies. The first
limitation is that the profiles and the post that will be shared are going to be public and this will
lack the engagement from the vast audience all over the world (Gil de Zúñiga, Jung and
Valenzuela 2012 p. 332). This will only be shared with friends and family and thus the
engagement will lack the momentum it needs. The main requirements include assigning public
profiles to all the social accounts.
Build relationship
The social profiles that I have made will be used to set up an online identity for myself.
Although I have made these profiles private, I will make them go public after some time ( Goh,
Heng and Lin 2013 p. 88). The friends I have made and my family will be able to comment on
my posts. After getting a successful post engagement from all my friends and families, I will
make my posts go public so that they can share my posts to their accounts. This will help me to
build my relationship with my audience and thus my online identity will be established on a
massive scale (McGowan et al. 2012 p. 466).
Interactions with an online community
As I have said earlier that I use my Facebook profile to communicate with the online
communities, the interactions it makes is a great way to bring traffic to my blogs (Forbes 2013 p.
108). This is a known and recognized component of digital marketing which is known as
influencer marketing (Laroche, Habibi and Richard 2013 p. 78). The interactions that I make will
eventually make them come into my blog. Similarly, I will also use the Facebook online

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communities based on photography and try to make good posts on them. This will make the
members of the group to engage on my posts and on my blogs, which will increase my blog
traffic (Best, Manktelow and Taylor 2014 p. 28). In addition, I will also try to befriend some
people in the social media, Facebook with a good amount of followers and ask them to include
my blog link in their next posts. In this way, I will increase my blog traffic.
Thus, the blog, which I will make, will be used to make an identity for myself in the
online media especially the social networks. The use of the social media has made innovations in
the existing technologies and values (Chianucci and Cutini 2013 p. 133). This is the reason for
the use of the social media to create a cultural identity and thus an online identity will be made
successfully. The beneficial utilization or use of the social media will be a great way to make
some of the innovative strategies by utilizing the methods discussed. The further use of the web
presence will be utilized by targeting the organic traffics too. This will successfully make a web
presence, which will eventually lead to the creation of an online identity.

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