Henriette Weber

I should have seen it coming long before I started using my “last-five-years-handle”: Redsoda – that one day I would not be known online as Redsoda anymore, but I would be known as my real name. There’s an increasing ammount of communities that really wants to know who you are – IRL and thereby diminishing the border between online and offline even further. If you google yourself, a lot of the stuff coming up is from social media that you are actively using.
I work everyday with online identity and social branding, and a lot of clients asks me to use my social network as a part of the branding and marketing strategy, which I refuse – unless it’s a steady employment or something that I am associated with, not only being freelance. The reason I refuse is because, that if I do that, I would become apart of the brand and marketing strategy and probably annoy my network to hell =)

Sometimes I want to be anonymous redsoda – whoever she is. I am missing a private space – where people can’t find out who I am.
I could just choose a new handle and a new identity, still at some point, people would find out that I was indeed Henriette Weber.
I might just feel nostalgic, but I am starting to miss the online anonymity where I don’t have to be anybody except for a handle.