The document discusses the author's growing online identity across multiple social media platforms. It describes her profiles on About.Me, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, explaining how each is used and what identity she presents. Her Twitter handle refers to her journalistic background and keeps her surname private. On Facebook, she connects with family and friends and shares photos and social updates. Her LinkedIn profile needs updating to better reflect her ongoing career across publishing and teaching.

1. First, a little About.Me ...
First online site created using a semi-formal voice describing
basic outline of career and interests. Photo creates a simple,
elegant aesthetic which places me not as the main focus
but walking the viewer through the profile. Attached to newly
created social media platforms LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
No Facebook here as that is solely for family and close friends.
My growing online identity
Vicki Hatton
Post embedded from my About.Me profile, 2016.
https://about.me/vicki.hatton

2. My growing online identity
Then listen to this, Twitter ...
Twitter created to engage with this unit’s teaching staff
and fellow students with a shared interest in our topics. I
deliberately kept my surname private as these comments
are not necessarily to be shared with my private business
colleagues and clients. My handle is a reference to my
journalistic background and I wanted an open, positive
photo to instil confidence of the online community.
Comments and hashtags used to generate interest and
engagement with others while learning from feedback
and interaction.I may create more handles to better reflect
community and topics for my professional life.
Tweet embedded from my @VLoisLaneHatts profile, 2016.
https://twitter.com/VLoisLaneHatts

3. My growing online identity
Next, friends unite on Facebook ...
Facebook is my existing social media platform used as a
means of connecting with selected family and friends. Scant
background information as I reason my contacts either
know where I went to school or are not particularly interested
anyway. I use this site to upload occasional photos and
comments about social activities and to view those of my
community, sometimes curating and adapting my posts to suit
the audience. Have included my maiden name as a search
tool for potential friends to identify and request access.
Post embedded from my Facebook profile, 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/vicki.l.grant.37

4. My growing online identity
In an instant, Instagram ...
A newly created pictorial site which sits nicely with Facebook
but also could allow open expression from an artistic or
creative perspective. I retained my Twitter handle as it waa
fairly innocuous and could allow for a degree of anonymity.
Can see potential for business/career use but not in my
current situation.
Post embedded from my Instagram profile, 2016.
https://www.instagram.com/vloislanehatts/

5. My growing online identity
Finally, but perhaps not last, LinkedIn ...
My LinkedIn profile has a basic outline of my career but
needs an overhaul to better reflect my ongoing career. I
have added skills as they accumulate but my specialist
publishing market and teaching duties are not related at
all, which creates some difficulty when listing my skills, as
much of the work is carried out simultaneously. Fragmented
work roles, identity and juggling focus and importance (as
it varies depending on which area I am focusing on). I need
to contemplate separating certain aspects and yet the
affordances of the platform itself can be restricting.
Post embedded from my LinkedIn profile, 2016.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-hatton/