Are you really who you say you are ?

If you were to define yourself , how would you do that? Would you give them your true identity or will you impersonate yourself ? Sometimes on social media we present ourselves differently than we do in real life as discussed in class. Some students said they are exactly the same in person as they are on the internet which is false, because we tend to present ourselves either too better or too less. For instance, on social media I see people that act as they got more which they don’t, because they compulsively beg others for money in reality. I see a lot of people who flash their money or designer clothes and shoes, but can’t even keep a job or maintain a car in actuality. I can even say I flatter myself more  on social media than In real life cause I act as I have a lot of confidence, but in real life I don’t . We even show fake attitudes on social media when we really don’t even like the person we congratulate. For example, some of my peers can relate to some of these statuses that they make behind the media.

This all comes into the main idea of The episode Catfish where people lie of their identity just to be accepted by someone they truely like or love. Angela, whom is a wife that spends most of her time taking care of her handicapped kids and flirting online. She created a profile of someone named Abby that was a artist and then a profile of Megan, a 19 year old gorgeous girl just to capture Nev attention. When nev figures out that he is ready to meet Megan he ends up going to her and he meets Angela, whom was acting like Megan wasn’t there and as he examines her and he figures out the many cover ups she has been portraying he asked her for the truth and she ends up telling him that she made up the fantasy world to please him which only messed up Nev life to never even particupate in online dating again, because his feelings got crushed. This is why I suggest that we take some time out and learn how to conversate and better understand each other. Technology only distracts us and distance us from each other.

Even kids and teenagers is in front of technology 24/7 From the television to their cellular device. I’m todays world tennagers are big time users of their cellphones and they even disregard themselves from their family just to conform themselves to social media. Sherry Turkle In this video actually tells us how she use to be so into her cellphone and how when her daughter texted her good luck it felt as if she recieved a hug. Turkle states that too much texting can be a problem, because we expect more from technology and less from each other cause tech appeals to us where we are most vulnerable which is why Angela started a fake life cause she was lonely/bored cause she was stuck in a house all day watching her kids  and she wanted somebody to communicate with her, to feed her comforting words cause she wasn’t receiving it at home so she started with Facebook cause she felt as if it makes her feel more free within herself.