These days it’s
hard to show your true character on social media without a bit of strategic
presentation that is readily available to us in the form of grammatical checks
or maybe a message retrieve function. We can even use the privacy setting to
limit photos we don’t want everyone to see to our group of friends or reject the
friend requests thus limiting information to a certain group of people. At the
same time it is also not difficult to create a fake account or alter egos online
to avoid the surveillance and criticism from those around us. This is
especially true when we have unpopular opinions on certain subjects in order us
to fit in to what we believe to be the social norm.
However, it
gets more difficult to hide yourself when you have friends who tag you on
photos and share things with you freely or when your friends get notified when
you like certain pages. This enables other to make assumptions out of those
external factors to which we may have not even contributed to.
Though whether
it’s easy or not to strategically present ourselves on social media and
manipulate other’s perception of who we are, in a strange way we reveal to
others the “us” that we want others to see and possibly even the person we want
to become. And if we can read between the lines, we may be able to take a glimpse
of a person’s true self. Therefore, I believe that people’s ability to make judgments
for themselves is more important than how well we may think we strategically
present ourselves to others no matter online or in real life. (280 words)
Student name: Harina Rachel Anne Aristan
Dear Rachel, This is a nice piece of work. Though the terms front and back spaces are not found in the writing, your arguments demonstrate your understanding of the terms. Based on this blog writing, you can write up your first portfolio component. In the upcoming writing, you are suggested to make explicit use of the theoretical terms when you reflect on your experience. Nice work. Keep it up! (Frankie)
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