Abstract
We live in a world full of judgment and competition, inescapably comparing ourselves and being compared to those around us. The types of actions users take and the kinds of information they are adding to their Facebook walls and profiles are a reflection of their identities. You are your Facebook, basically, and despite all its socialness, Facebook is a deeply personal medium. The time spent earlier during a car ride to a daydream, or building fantasies during lunchtime at work, or those small breaks one took to gaze outside the window are now all time to connect with technology, reply to a text, log on to websites and check email or notifications. I feel robbed on my aloneness, to be rather a buzz of constant communication, that hinders my every moment, and there is always someone to reply to. I finalized this topic because I wanted to explore the need of projection of an online identity of one’s self and if it is the performance and the constant simulation that keeps us stimulated and addicted or is it the reflection of the real onto our screens, because some of us project and consume, idealized images through Facebook, and researchers have been trying to figure out how all this flawlessness affects us in the real world.
Highlights
The time spent earlier during a car ride to a daydream, or building fantasies during lunchtime at work, or those small breaks one took to gaze outside the window are all time to connect with technology, reply to a text, log on to websites and check email or notifications
I finalized this topic because I wanted to explore the need of projection of an online identity of one’s self and if it is the performance and the constant simulation that keeps us stimulated and addicted or is it the reflection of the real onto our screens, because some of us project and consume, idealized images through Facebook, and researchers have been trying to figure out how all this flawlessness affects us in the real world
I got addicted and I have seen my friends addiction towards social networking sites like facebook etc to the limit that my topic of study is to understand the powerful need that is being met by myself and a million other selves who are in the predicament that I‟m in, I need to understand how that identity that I have created for my friends has taken on such an important, such an essential role in my life
Summary
The time spent earlier during a car ride to a daydream, or building fantasies during lunchtime at work, or those small breaks one took to gaze outside the window are all time to connect with technology, reply to a text, log on to websites and check email or notifications. I got addicted and I have seen my friends addiction towards social networking sites like facebook etc to the limit that my topic of study is to understand the powerful need that is being met by myself and a million other selves who are in the predicament that I‟m in, I need to understand how that identity that I have created for my friends has taken on such an important, such an essential role in my life.
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