During this week's class discussion, we have been talking about the way people portray themselves online compared to their actual identities. Being that I am on Facebook, youtube and an ESPN member, I see a lot of people that make comments that I do not think they would make in real life conversation. I constantly see people degrading other people online and talking about things they would never say to a person that was actually right in front of them. The people online that I notice quite often are people that pretend they are tougher than they really are. They portray themselves as someone who thinks they are better than everyone else and they know far more than anyone else in the world.
The way that people act in my opinion is the way that they wish they could act in real life. People always talk about serious situations like they are not bothered by them online as well like relationships. People like to put on a front whenever they know they are not saying these things in real life. They also always like to put pictures up of themselves that do not accurately portray how they really are. Many profile pictures on Facebook are of people that are partying all the time or doing something outrageous when in reality they do things that are outrageous like that maybe once every few months. In my honest opinion, we use online identities to say the things we only wish we could say in real life and this is why so many people have accounts with these various websites. It gives us a chance to escape actuality for a minute and go into this fantasy world where we know we can say and do almost anything we want.
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