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This week I got to cyber sleuth! I partnered up with Jesse D, and with his approval for posting I found: Name: Jesse Ducharme Education: Currently enrolled in the education program at the University of Regina with a math major and physical education minor. Hobbies: Loves travelling and his dream travel location is anywhere in Germany. He loves animals, but favourite animal is a dog, which he has 2 of. Their names are Finn and Diesel. Also has 3 cats, named Salem, Randy, and Holly. Likes Live streaming on Twitch. In a dance class for school, Has a PC gaming setup. Enjoys video games Relationships: Has a girlfriend, friend named Bailey Employment: Laid off :( Appearance: Wears glasses, long beard, brown hair, likes to wear a hat backwards. This was honestly all I could find on Jesse, this was even difficult to find. I enjoyed the experience, it was challenging and I spent a lot of time trying to find the right information on the right person. There were many google pages scrolled through and many dead ends. There were accounts that looked almost like him but appeared to be from California. Was this him with some fake location? Who knows! As for my digital identity, I already know that I am very easy to find information on and a lot of that is based off of my PLN network and my ePortfolio that I have been building for two years. I usually share a lot and that may be a downside but I don’t mind it as I am cautious with what it is I am sharing and who all has access to this information. I often post on instagram, sharing with the world what I believe is important. I do it for the soul purpose of showing people who I am. Although I post often and most times it's a happy picture taken days or months ago posted during a rough time. Most people who know me often tell me they wish to be me, thinking my life is perfect. I have a perfect family, my own car, an amazing boyfriend and I have been living alone since I was 18 years old. But all that isn’t true, there's deeper darker things that happen in life. In Split Image by Kate Fagan. “Instagram is passed off as real life. Yes, people filter their photos to make them prettier. People are also often encouraged to put filters on their sadness, to brighten their reality so as not to "drag down" those around them. The myth still exists that happiness is a choice, which perpetuates the notion of depression as weakness. Life must be Instagrammed -- in more ways than one.” - Kate Fagan And that's exactly how it is. Everyone wants to show off themselves as put together and happy 24/7, but in reality we aren’t living breathing social media platforms and not everything is perfect. There are lots of new pages on Instagram that show their true selves, showing us the dark sides of living life and it is pages like that that save others from thinking they are alone in this dark world.
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