Personal Narrative: My Social Media Autobiography

When I think about my presence on the internet, I think of my social media accounts, things I have accomplished and things I have been apart of that could show up when you searched my name in a search bar. For my rampages site I took into account the various articles we looked at, what my other social media accounts looked like as well as past assignments that I could relate to this assignment, so that I could make the best decisions possible to write a solid explanation for my decisions. On my rampage site I tried to keep my site professional, but as well as a little personal. I included personal and professional pictures of me as well as information about me, some of my academic works, as well as my track and field information.

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“Do Be thoughtful of your username”, was the first one that would decide if my page was going to be professional, or personal, so I chose to be professional in that aspect and make my username simply my name. The second one was “Don’t only talk about who your are.” I took that one into account when I was making the menus,m so I decided to not only have ad about me page but to also have a page dedicated to focus inquiry that reflects my writing skills. Lastly, Izadi’s last do was, “Do be authentic.” I accompanied that by having pink, grey and white as my color scheme and a fun outline for my page that I thought reflected some of my favorite colors and …show more content…
I decided that I would try and dip into a little bit of both for most of the content of my menu’s. I thought about Jeffrey Rosen’s article “The web means the end of forgetting.” Rosen’s article talks about how people have posted things on the internet and it has affected them in their jobs, pursuit of degrees and even traveling to another country. The article also claims that people nowadays, because employers and anyone can search up your name and find things about you that, “What people seem to want is not simply control over their privacy settings; they want control over their online reputations.” But, Rosen says that things like this are unrealistic, he also inserts a very important point in the article saying that, “ The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. Rosen’s article made me take a step back and look at my other social accounts to see how someone would perceive me off of things I have already posted, like pictures and status updates and how I don’t have control over that, but since I’m creating this article from scratch that I have a chance to kind of change how someone views me if the