Talk:Chase Richmond

It seems like societal pressures to be cool found their way into your Facebook statuses in high school. I remember a lot of teenage boys trying to post "insightful" or "witty" statuses to make their friends and classmates laugh when I was on Facebook in high school. To me, it seems like your presence online was just an extension of what life in high school was like, which involved putting out a version of yourself who was constantly trying to impress people, because you probably cared a lot more what people thought of you (whether or not you were willing to admit it to yourself at the time). However, now that you are in college and have passed up that stage in your life, you don't feel nearly as inclined to post superficial status updates about academics and sports. Your expressed online identity has become less important to you, so your Facebook profile makes you look like you've dropped off the face of the earth. My interpretation of your profile is that it's basically an online representation of your maturity from high school to college, which is really interesting to see. -Emma Fink

Paul Commentary

Hi Chase,

I thought your intro was pretty clever with the way it tied in Facebook's feature of “Describe who you are” as a way to transition into the body of your piece. It was really interesting to read about your transition from a regular goofy high school guy (the Jared Diamond story is something I could have definitely seen happening at my school) into the young adult/college student that you are today. Overall your piece was insightful and you incorporated the readings effectively.

Your conclusion was really cool in the way that it tied everything back to that original question, “Describe who you are”. I think most people can agree that their Facebook profile does not truly reveal who they are anymore. It seems like nowadays it's either a highlight reel or people just simply don’t participate anymore.

-Paul Pal