Identity Online!

This is going back a fair few weeks, but I think it’s one of the most important, ongoing topics in regards to new media forms. I think we can all agree that when online we present ourselves differently in some sort of hope that our friends, friends to be and even friends of friends who are having a good old Facebook stalk will see us in the brightest light possible. This change of self-presentation is often seen as a bad or negative point about social networking sites as it presents a ‘false’ representation of one’s self. I personally don’t see this as a bad thing at all. I mean, sure, there are some extreme cases where someone’s online profile is completely different to their ‘real’ self, but I feel SNS just give us a whole new medium to express who we really are.




The internet provides us with many options that, unfortunately, real life cannot give us. We are very limited by reality; however the online world provides a world of seemingly unlimited opportunities. Anyone can become an online celebrity doing whatever they wish. Like this guy

There are so many regular people (an awkward phrase, I know)who have become icons in popular culture today, and it's great! Really, the internet is the ONLY way some people will be noticed in a larger environment. It shouldn't be seen as people changing their identity to suit the public's need for entertainment, rather these cewebrities finding their identity via their contributions to new media forms.

And for my final blog post, I'll leave you with this. Because it is great.