In Mrigaa Sethis essay, Facebook: Editing Myself, she talks about how online profiles are diluted, highly edited, flimsy representations of peoples identity. What is so real on these profiles?

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Chelsea Conboy

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ENC 1101

11 September 2011

Final Essay 1 pg. 59 #5

         Does the identity on the social networking sites let a person know what is real and what isn’t? Are people willing to share just about anything on these sites not knowing if any others are forged? In Mrigaa Sethi’s essay, Facebook: Editing Myself, she talks about how online profiles are diluted, highly edited, flimsy representations of people’s identity. What is so real on these profiles? She gives the example that online identity is an odd sort of shrine: It is not for a fixed deity but for a constantly changing self representation. Meaning that we are not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of others in society. Even though social networking gives opportunities to reveal aspects of identity, it could also be deceitful because by giving the option to change the setting and that privacy is no longer a social norm.

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        When making one of these social networks, the person fills out information about themselves such as their hometown, where they go to school, and interest. Except, how do they know if the information is 100 percent true.  The way a person edit’s their selves, is the way people out there will see it. Starting out, many people will add your profile that has strange names or strange pictures. Are they really who they say they are? Today’s society, many people make up fake identities to do deceitful things to others or vice versa. These profiles are sometimes unoriginal. As said ...

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