My Personal Web Imprints
By working online with Web 2.0 tools such as course wikis and educational blogs, I am sure that I have left my personal Web imprints for people to track me down. Somehow I have avoided leaving so many footprints for “cyber dogs” to easily track me down. Because I don’t believe in social networks, I have no accounts on Facebook and the like because I really enjoy my privacy as a human earthly being.
I cannot be against people who use these tools for communicating with their dear ones or students, but count me out! I guess it is a great idea for them, but the idea has never sunk in my head, ever! I’m not really interested in being exposed the Web visitors trying to quench their thirst for personal information of a language teacher happily working in Costa Rica. Let them quench their thirst in some other puddle.
As you many have noticed, you can conclude that I am not a member of any Website, online forums, and the like. I do write lots of emails to teaching partners in various parts of the globe, but we do that among ourselves privately. Because my privacy is my legitimate right, no picture or video about me is found online. I am not interested in that cyber “fame,” Yet, by searching my full name on the Web I can see a bit of my imprints: comments I made on national issues on Local newspapers, reviews of items I have bought online, my educational blogs, and surprisingly enough for me, I got quoted by a TESOL member, Shelly Wong, on the TESOL Quarterly article after a consulting participation in a local TESOL affiliate conference.
Jonathan Acuña
Universidad Latina
Costa Rica
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