Identity :: Technology, SNS Profiles

Some young multitude create profiles as their friends have, they propensity to join in their peer group and to share a everyday experience with their friends. Joining like-minded peers appeals to their collective self-esteem, which eventually, gives them the unexpected pleasure in expressing themselves on SNS profiles. Often, young people provide specific information (e.g., name, birthdate, relationship status) on SNS, although such disclosure is often considered as personalized.Profile propagation is an explicit act of writing aceself into being a digital environs (Boyd D., 2008) and participants must determine how they want to present themselves to those who may view their self-representation or those they wish might. With the ability to post, share and tag photos on SNS represents an important rise in the ability to communicate. Before, if one wanted to share digital photos, one had to email everyone to let them know. With SNS and News Feeds, when one post new photos on Fac ebook, the friends get automatically notified in their News Feed. People will cover the photos on the wall when they visit the profile page.Apart from being a place for self-presentations, profiles are a place where people gather to talk roughly and share. Conversations happen on profiles and a persons profile reflects their engagements. Consequently, young people do not have complete control over their identities. Users are asked to entice their friends to the SNS once they have create their profiles. When relationship is confirmed, the two become Friends in SNS and their relationship is included in the public News Feed wall. These 4 features profiles, photos, friends and news feed - differentiate Facebook from other types of computer-mediated communication. Many young people join SNS to maintain connections with their friends. While viewing profiles, they are given tie in to their friends friends and so they can spend hours surfing the network, clicking from Friend to Frien d. By looking at others profiles, young people often get a sense of what types of presentations are socially appropriate others profiles provide critical cues about what to present on their own profile. (Boyd D., 2008) Many young people besides manipulate the profiles to express themselves with the choice of pictures and the answers to questions.As Manuel Castells (1997) points out, identity is peoples source of meaning and experience. From a sociological perspective, humans come into the founding with an identity based on qualities such as their gender, race, familys frugal status, etc.