Digital legacies: Was it all worth it?
You may notice a few changes on the blog soon. I've been thinking a lot recently about 'digital legacies' which is really a sign of the times we live in. I started this blog back when I was a really young woman living in Limerick. I was about to move to Dublin where I would start a journalism MA degree. The posts from this era, make me cringe. They would do because I'm now a professional journalist and writer who is 36. I used language I wouldn't today, didn't capitalise letters where I should have and featured clothing that horrifies me. I'm happy to leave some of it and file it under 'growing pains' on this blog but it does raise a question for me. Would I feel happy if an employer - which is now editors or magazines in my case - found it? This feeds into a wider discussion about being very careful what we leave online for safety reasons but I am very pleased that I haven't written anything too horrific. Mind you, there were some handbags I
