Under this circumstance, identity construction mostly involves the manipulation of physical scenery, such as furniture and/or decoration, and “personal front” which includes appearance, dialect, and manner to make a desired impression on others (Goffman, 1959). Disembodied online meetings allow people to hide their undesired features, and concealment allows individuals to reconstruct their stories and character (Tennyson, Robert D., Paul Kirschner, Jen-Her Wu, and Yair Amichal-Hamburger, 3). To understand even further, the disembodied and anonymous online setting makes it likely for social media users to reinvent themselves. Online, a female can become a male, an overweight mailman to become a model, or a mother to be a young college student. Online “role-playing,” as the phenomenon has come to be known can be an empowering process. Studies have shown that the elimination of physical “gating features” such as stigmatized appearance, stuttering, shyness, etc. allows certain deprived people to avoid the usual obstacles that prevent them from creating desired face-to-face settings (McKenna, 11). Overall, social media plays a big role in identity
Under this circumstance, identity construction mostly involves the manipulation of physical scenery, such as furniture and/or decoration, and “personal front” which includes appearance, dialect, and manner to make a desired impression on others (Goffman, 1959). Disembodied online meetings allow people to hide their undesired features, and concealment allows individuals to reconstruct their stories and character (Tennyson, Robert D., Paul Kirschner, Jen-Her Wu, and Yair Amichal-Hamburger, 3). To understand even further, the disembodied and anonymous online setting makes it likely for social media users to reinvent themselves. Online, a female can become a male, an overweight mailman to become a model, or a mother to be a young college student. Online “role-playing,” as the phenomenon has come to be known can be an empowering process. Studies have shown that the elimination of physical “gating features” such as stigmatized appearance, stuttering, shyness, etc. allows certain deprived people to avoid the usual obstacles that prevent them from creating desired face-to-face settings (McKenna, 11). Overall, social media plays a big role in identity