I grew up under the golden age of the fierce development of the internet and modern technology, so I am not only an authentic witness of such an groundbreaking evolution of the world but also an empathetic user and huge fan who enjoys and cannot leave without those unstoppably growing magic as you are. After reading your article “What Do Our Online Avatars Reveal About Us?”, I was deeply impressed by your ideas about how our online avatars relate to ourselves that endow me with simultaneously emerging enlightenments throughout the passage and could not help myself to write you this letter to share some of my illuminations after reading your thoughts and take you to a journey of exploring the my doubt derived from by the complicated relationship
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If so, what makes us generate such positive power to improve our internet world? I suggest the relationship between our human nature of “group polarization”(Kolbert 4) and our intention of “showing up”(Hess 3) our beautiful life to others could navigate us to an answer. As Carina Chocano claims in his “It’s Easy to Be Called ‘Thirsty’ on Social Media. What About on Capitol Hill?”, Chocano asserts that “not much has changed in this regard, except that now, as much as we thirst for approval, we dread being condemned precisely for being so ‘thirsty’ ” to highlight the main factor that causes us to follow that trend of showing off our wonderful lifestyle, the “‘thirst”, which is the very key to explain our motivation. Social media like Facebook, the leading social network platform, provides the openest and widest stage for our online avatars to display our “ emblems of our success”, “our good grooming”, and “our unflappable happiness.” When we skim through one’s Facebook pages, it is not hard for us to find “the most beautiful moments” of his or her personal life. Undoubtedly, people no longer limit their behaviors in speaking up their minds through original online platform like the BBS. Today, “showing up”, “looking good”, “being clever” and “seeming you really care in all these different spaces” on our Facebook or other new online platforms gradually become a norm as well as a trend in the internet (Hess 3). However, Chocano does not fully in favor of this “trend” because he declares that “there’s always been something slightly derogatory about the way we speak of a thirst for wealth, fame, power or attention.” Although these behaviors and the “thirsts” behind them are not as noble as we are educated to be, we somehow precipitate each other to pursue the beautiful things
If so, what makes us generate such positive power to improve our internet world? I suggest the relationship between our human nature of “group polarization”(Kolbert 4) and our intention of “showing up”(Hess 3) our beautiful life to others could navigate us to an answer. As Carina Chocano claims in his “It’s Easy to Be Called ‘Thirsty’ on Social Media. What About on Capitol Hill?”, Chocano asserts that “not much has changed in this regard, except that now, as much as we thirst for approval, we dread being condemned precisely for being so ‘thirsty’ ” to highlight the main factor that causes us to follow that trend of showing off our wonderful lifestyle, the “‘thirst”, which is the very key to explain our motivation. Social media like Facebook, the leading social network platform, provides the openest and widest stage for our online avatars to display our “ emblems of our success”, “our good grooming”, and “our unflappable happiness.” When we skim through one’s Facebook pages, it is not hard for us to find “the most beautiful moments” of his or her personal life. Undoubtedly, people no longer limit their behaviors in speaking up their minds through original online platform like the BBS. Today, “showing up”, “looking good”, “being clever” and “seeming you really care in all these different spaces” on our Facebook or other new online platforms gradually become a norm as well as a trend in the internet (Hess 3). However, Chocano does not fully in favor of this “trend” because he declares that “there’s always been something slightly derogatory about the way we speak of a thirst for wealth, fame, power or attention.” Although these behaviors and the “thirsts” behind them are not as noble as we are educated to be, we somehow precipitate each other to pursue the beautiful things