Technology has been one of the most important discovery for mankind and with each passing day its entering our lives a bit more. Today it is almost at the center of our lives mostly through the social media. But what social media actually is? When we hear the term social media the first think that comes to our mind is platforms like Facebook or Instagram. But to understand the real meaning and function of it we can say that social media is a web-based communication system that helps people to connect and share their lives with others. It has an important place in our lives and top all now it has stepped out of being just a communication system and turned into a platform where people can create new selves and live with their new identities as
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It brought new ways to making friends and presenting oneself to others. Okay but what we mean when we say social media? It is actually a web-based communication system that contains extensive platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. These social media platforms enable people to reflect themselves as they want. There is a conception that assumes social media as people’s privacy so things that we see on people’s social media are actually their private sides that they don’t always let others see. Because social media accounts as “private” people present themselves more comfortably. However presentation of self on social media doesn't count as the original self. In his article Bernie Hogan says that “Once a performance has been recorded, the nature of the performance has altered. It may still be a presentation of self, and undoubtedly it continues to signify an individual. However, it no longer necessarily bounds the specific audience who were present when the performance took place” (Hogan, 380). Our real personality that we exhibit in real life and the self that we present on social media is not the same because the self on our social media accounts is designed not natural. For instance, most of the people garble their pictures before they share it on Instagram and this is far from naturalness. There are few reasons why people do this and in general it is because they want to be approved by the society and also they do this to increase their self-confidence. Bernie Hogan also mentions the difference of the traditional presentation and todays presentation of self by saying “Many online sites set up a situation where individuals can continually submit data to be associated with their profile. This sort of “interaction” where people view and react to the submitted content of others is dissimilar from the traditional situations that gave rise to Goffman’s germane dramaturgical approach” (Hogan,
It brought new ways to making friends and presenting oneself to others. Okay but what we mean when we say social media? It is actually a web-based communication system that contains extensive platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. These social media platforms enable people to reflect themselves as they want. There is a conception that assumes social media as people’s privacy so things that we see on people’s social media are actually their private sides that they don’t always let others see. Because social media accounts as “private” people present themselves more comfortably. However presentation of self on social media doesn't count as the original self. In his article Bernie Hogan says that “Once a performance has been recorded, the nature of the performance has altered. It may still be a presentation of self, and undoubtedly it continues to signify an individual. However, it no longer necessarily bounds the specific audience who were present when the performance took place” (Hogan, 380). Our real personality that we exhibit in real life and the self that we present on social media is not the same because the self on our social media accounts is designed not natural. For instance, most of the people garble their pictures before they share it on Instagram and this is far from naturalness. There are few reasons why people do this and in general it is because they want to be approved by the society and also they do this to increase their self-confidence. Bernie Hogan also mentions the difference of the traditional presentation and todays presentation of self by saying “Many online sites set up a situation where individuals can continually submit data to be associated with their profile. This sort of “interaction” where people view and react to the submitted content of others is dissimilar from the traditional situations that gave rise to Goffman’s germane dramaturgical approach” (Hogan,