Facebook

The text that I read and analyzed from our academic book "remix" was a story about a college professor who put a little to much information on her facebook page which was found by a student who tried to sign up for one of her class. What I analyzed from this story was that people show their real identity when they are on facebook. On facebook we are not scared to write on our facebook what really interests us and what we have fun doing. We are not scared to post pictures of the people whom we really love and spend time with. We show our own personalities when we talk to people online as you are not looking that other person in the face. However, in real life some people do not show their true identity. Some people might change their views on things or may speak differently of someone else just to fit in with the people they are hanging out with in real life. For some people it is hard to show who they really are when they are talking face to face with someone rather than talking to someone online. In this story, the college professor puts on facebook that she is bi-sexual and that she does not mind drinking beer. As a college professor she should not be putting that on facebook, but that is her real identity. However, when she is in the classroom, she is supposed to be looked at as a person who does not cooperate with this sort of stuff because she is a teacher. I felt that this story supported my opinion of saying that we have two different identities, one on facebook and one in real life.