Presentation of Self
After soaking in the lecture and readings on the Presentation of Self, I
decided to delve into the social media that is Facebook and ways in which we construct
and present ourselves to the social cyber world. Digital access, online activity and noteworthy status updates are now
influencing the degree to which someone is a (digital) “friend” or member of
your “community”. Conventions of friendship and community are being transferred
from real life interactions to digitally constructed actions on Facebook:
apologies, break-ups, breaking off friendships, relationship / wedding
announcements (the amount of times I have heard someone say “it’s not official
till its facebook official” is ridiculous). Social networks are rewiring
our relationships and our “keyboard communities” are affecting the attachments
in our actual ones. I even found a website which gives you an array of
different themed facebook statues for you to choose from for any occasion – advice,
angry, boys, break-ups, cool, depression, drama, friendships, random,
inspirational are just a few of the many, many different status categories this
website provides allowing people to construct which kind of “self” they wish to
project to the facebook world. Have a look if you like http://fstatuses.com/advice-facebook-statuses/
you might find a Facebook status that suits the kind of self you wish to
project today.
Also, here
are a couple of articles that I found interesting:
Hilsen, A.
(2012), ‘The construction of self in social medias, such as Facebook’, AI and Society, 27(1)
Zhao, S.
(2008), ‘Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored
relationships’, Computers in Human
Behaviour, 24(1), pp. 1816-1836
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