Talk:Gabrielle Carels
Hi Gabrielle,
I really like how you started off with the idea that your Facebook does not accurately represent all of you. Your honesty is there right from the beginning and it sets up your avatar page very nicely. I also appreciate that you very quickly laid out your use of Facebook in the first paragraph. Also, the fact that you separated the bulk of your discourse into a "reveal" section and a "hide" section really helped get across the point of your page.
While you covered a wide variety of the primary elements of you Facebook, I think you could have looked a little more at some of the secondary elements not mentioned. Some of the secondary elements were implicit based on your use of Facebook and I think you would have benefited from bringing a few of these ideas to the foreground.
With all that said, you had excellent photos, and your voice in the page was excellent for communicating your ideas. It was all tied together from start to finish with a clear message being put across. Great job!
Jad
Hello Gabrielle,
I like how your analysis focuses on the agency with which one can construct their Facebook identity. Whether your Facebook identity matches up with your real identity has to do with the choices you make in presenting and hiding information about yourself, and you go into fairly deep detail about what you choose to share online and don't.
I found your decision to hide your religion and relationship status to be particularly interesting, because you have all your other basic info such as age, education, and workplace listed. Usually people who list these things would list their relationship status and religion, I think, but these piece of information also seem to have a more personal nature that differentiates them from the basic info. Your talking about 600 people having knowledge of your break up and asking "What happened" was a telling example of TMI.
Your writing style was pleasant and easy to read. I have no fault with how the language itself works in this avatar analysis.
Overall, I think your effort here seems really genuine; it seems that you took a deep, hard look at your Facebook and were able to find the contradictions and gaps between your avatar and you yourself.
Mark Buckner
