Analysis on Facebook: Editing Myself

Facebook is a whole new world for most people. Others, its a place to express their feelings, photos, and most of all to stay connected with everyone they know. Whether they are your best friend, sibling, parent, or even your grandparent; you always find a way to connnect with them. In our present time, that's a question that usually comes up in conversation. "Do you have Facebook?"Some people, like teachers for example, are always hesitant about adding their students on Facebook. There is always a fine line when it comes to "being friends". Some teachers will make two separate facebooks as this is a way to connect with there students on a more peronal level as well as being more appropriate and getting in touch with them faster. Lets face it, most students don't use email anymore or if they have one rarely check it every day or even at all. "My online profile is a negotiation of self as much as it is a declaration of self, and interactions like the one I had with potential student remind me that my identity isn't neat or controlable."(62) Most of the time this is true. What gets on the media stays on the media. This is something everyone should take to heart and think before you press the enter button to release whatever it is you have to say to all people that can see it. Whether you mean to make yourself seem a certain way or not, people automatically assume things and make assumptions on what kind of person you are. From personal experience I have come to find that people are never how they truly seem online.