The article that I discussed in class called “The Many Faces of You” was very useful for me and I think it was also useful for the rest of the class in realizing how fast technology is actually moving and also how the norms of our online lives could quite possibly interfere with the norms of actual real life. The topic that I really want to discuss in this blog is the topic of our perception of oneself. Not our real life perception but our online perception. The article discusses a woman who has two face books, one for work and one for her social life. I had to ask myself why she did this and I wanted to break it down. I believe that our online self’s image is becoming more important to a lot of us than our actual real self which is VERY scary to me. I believe this is so because when you look at something like someone who has two face books they clearly are doing it to portray different images of themselves. People are far too worried about being seen in a picture with a beer than actually portraying there real image. So like this woman, people are portraying different images of themselves through the technology that is available to them such as face book in this example.
The norms of these different online worlds are also beginning to really scare me. The article discussed actually having an online Thanksgiving and the norms of face book. As technology becomes more and more advanced people are going to be more involved with online norms then they are with real life norms. The norms online are definitely going to interfere with those in the real world because people are so caught up in their online worlds that it’s almost impossible to think that they won’t interfere. I also believe that online norms will be much more dominant than those of the real world and begin to shape real word norms because people are continuously becoming more caught up with technology. Especially in today’s world where I see 3rd graders running around with cell phones and just the other day I got a friend request on facebook from one of my best friend’s 9 year old brother. The fact of the matter is that technology is advancing so fast that people are becoming so caught up in it that these online worlds are becoming far more important to them than the real world which is absolutely crazy to think about and almost hard to grasp in a lot of ways. The thing that sticks in my mind is what comes next after face book and after all of the online worlds that already exist. There is no doubt in my mind that with the technology savvy people in this country that people are already looking at ways to improve these worlds to do bigger and better things. This also plays into the mindset of our country of how people always want something better and more efficient than what is already out there.
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