Assessment 2

My online presence

Cooper Mathews

My online identity is very friendship based as seen by my privacy settings on Facebook and Instagram. On Facebook all my friends are people that I have had contact with or are my friends in real life. This means I get all of the information and updates from my friends at the top of my feed. That being said I also follow some content pages such as unilad and student problems so I can tag my friends and communicate with them through comments.

This communication and tagging is a good way to stay in contact when my friends are in different places. Similarly, my Instagram is completely private from non-followers this is important for me a

 

s I can post things that are meaningful to my friends and followers as I see it as a more personal extension of myself and a good way to keep an album of my good photos. However again like Facebook I rarely post and is most used for liking posts and as a centre for keeping up with people I follow and content pages I follow as a form of entertainment. These two platforms can be seen as a form of entertainment when I have some time to kill also as a way to interact with my friends.

Next my ways of talking with my friends and other people these consist of:

  • Facebook Messenger
  • Snapchat
  • PlayStation parties
  • SMS messages
  • Gmail

Facebook Messenger is a way to text in groups or one on one with different people. I use this as my communication with friends. I have one chat with all of my high school friends. This chat called the “pissup patrol” is for organising things with my friends and posting funny or interesting things such as concerts or memes. This platform is also great for making chats with people for events or making random group chats for games. It’s also a great way to get instant messages form people.

My other main form of communication is Snapchat. This is mainly used for snap streaks. This daily communication is a great way of seeing how people are going and weather they are ok. Snapchat also allows you to communicate using more emotion than other chat applications. Also, the limited time nature of snapchat means that you can’t be intruded on by people going through your phone.

A common chat system I use is PlayStation chat. this party system allows me to communicate with my friends online with ease. This is great for me as most of my friends are in Melbourne and I can use this to catch up on all of their goings on’s.

I use SMS as a form of formal communication. An example of this is when I communicate with my different swim teaching jobs when they need me to come in or fill in for a shift. This also allows quick communication between my family members.

Lastly Gmail. This form of communication is again more formal and work based and is where the balk of my emails come into. This allows me to make formal replies to important things as well as payment and subscriptions.

On the other end I have twitter and my website. This is where I post all of my public items. Twitter, I use to communicate with students and other people. The open nature of the website allows for easy communication and discussion. I also use the front page as a news feed keeping up with the world and people that I follow. My website and more importantly my blogs are a more openly personal reflection of myself and inner thoughts. It is also a hub where you can find all of my social media.

ONLINE PERSONAS

Another Important thing about your online presence is your persona. I’d like to think that my online persona is just a reflection of myself. As what I post and like are based on my beliefs. These beliefs I believe can be seen in the way in the comments and posts I like on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and twitter. I will often leave a comment to someone’s comment/post sometimes arguing with them. But I can also see how the online personas of people can be hidden in real life. Like people often have a more sensational and over the top. This is supported by an article on phys.org which says that Online personas rarely match real life behaviors. One of the quotes from the Albright in the article says, “It makes them, in a way, stars of their own reality shows.” I think this is very reminiscent of the environment online as it shows that people are more willing to reflect their beliefs than in the real world.

 

bibliography

May 14, 2010 By Mark Milian

https://phys.org/news/2010-05-online-personas-rarely-real-life-behavior.html

 

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