Innocent deceit?
My grandma hates pictures of herself. She despises them. At the sight of a camera, she buries her face in her arm. Ironically, she recently got a Facebook. But, in place of her own face as her profile picture, is a baby lamb.
When she joined Facebook, my grandma also joined multitudes of users who carefully and skillfully create a pseudo-identity via the Web.
Through social networking sites like Facebook, you can effectively boil who you are down to a profile page and catchy album titles. We pick a few favorite quotes to adorn our page--hopefully a good variety of inspirational and side-splittingly funny--post a cute status and we're good to go.
iGeneration
Call us Generation Y or Millennials, it's all the same. We are a bunch of tech-savvy, gadget-loving, self-promoters -- and there's nothing inherently wrong with that!
We have an image to keep and we know how to do it best. It didn't happen if it's not on Facbeook, right? You could almost say Facebook rules the world. Well, our world, at least.
While social networking sites do just what they say, provide an excellent medium for connecting and communicating, they also enable us to wield on our audience a level of deception about who we really are. And adults are catching on.
We find it shocking that our parents and grandparents are now on Facebook, but soon, we too will find ourselves in the category of adults who use social networks.
YOUR MOM reads your wall. Seriously.
A 400 percent increase in adult users on social networking sites seems like a large swell now, but it's only going to increase as our generation, those born from 1982 to 2000, ages.
Many members of my generation perceive adult users on social networks as not to be trusted, creepy, and inept. This perception will certainly shift, as we ourselves become the middle-aged Facebook stalkers browsing through our cousin's girlfriend's pictures at 2 a.m.
My grandma hates pictures of herself. She despises them. At the sight of a camera, she buries her face in her arm. Ironically, she recently got a Facebook. But, in place of her own face as her profile picture, is a baby lamb.
When she joined Facebook, my grandma also joined multitudes of users who carefully and skillfully create a pseudo-identity via the Web.
Through social networking sites like Facebook, you can effectively boil who you are down to a profile page and catchy album titles. We pick a few favorite quotes to adorn our page--hopefully a good variety of inspirational and side-splittingly funny--post a cute status and we're good to go.
iGeneration
Call us Generation Y or Millennials, it's all the same. We are a bunch of tech-savvy, gadget-loving, self-promoters -- and there's nothing inherently wrong with that!
We have an image to keep and we know how to do it best. It didn't happen if it's not on Facbeook, right? You could almost say Facebook rules the world. Well, our world, at least.
While social networking sites do just what they say, provide an excellent medium for connecting and communicating, they also enable us to wield on our audience a level of deception about who we really are. And adults are catching on.
We find it shocking that our parents and grandparents are now on Facebook, but soon, we too will find ourselves in the category of adults who use social networks.
YOUR MOM reads your wall. Seriously.
A 400 percent increase in adult users on social networking sites seems like a large swell now, but it's only going to increase as our generation, those born from 1982 to 2000, ages.
Many members of my generation perceive adult users on social networks as not to be trusted, creepy, and inept. This perception will certainly shift, as we ourselves become the middle-aged Facebook stalkers browsing through our cousin's girlfriend's pictures at 2 a.m.
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