Talk:Jeremy Kaplan

First Comment - David Clarke

Hey Jeremy,

I like your autobiography, I've read many of the avatars and yours is by far the most interesting and genuine. One thing that I like about your profile is that you say that you have never deleted on your wall or timeline. It's interesting that you say that some events in your life are not presented on your timeline which adds to your profile being less authentic. You many want to consider adding important events to your timeline so that people can have a better view of you. Since there is not much that you add personally to your profile; you might want to write about how people might actually view you if they knew that about you. They could think that you are a lazy individual and that you do not care how you depict yourself... just an idea.

I think that it was interesting that you said that you don't have any privacy settings. What might outside people, looking in, think about that? Also, I think you should expand on how you can accurately be depicted even if you rarely contribute to your profile. Since most of the contributions to your profile come from your peers, it may be misleading to other viewers. I think that if you have restrictions on your profile such as more privacy settings, hidden photos from your timeline, and denied friend requests, lol, then people will see more of your values; just a thought.

Overall, I like how genuine your profile is, and how minimal your contributions are to your profile, but yet it depicts a portion of yourself; interesting.

Have a Great Thanksgiving!

Second Comment - Aaron Fogle

The way you have decided to depict this autobiography had me engaged and actually interested in reading your analysis on CyberJeremy. The questions asked at the beginning of your article helped define what you were trying to portray and it brought in an interesting concept. The concept being that, even through the lack of contributions on your part, your CyberJeremy identity is highly influenced by the level of control you’ve offered to your friends and family. And that it is your peers that are defining your Facebook social identity rather that yourself. I find this model of Facebook behavior refreshing as most people, including myself, are more focused on the privacy and the content we individually put up. It reminds me of the concepts of open source software in a proprietary market, and what the benefits are for each, which, in Facebook, shows the broad underlining values of the avatar. Was there any major reasoning behind using your Facebook in this way? Because there is the emphasis on minimal maintenance for your Facebook, I’m wondering what are your habits and ethics behind the social aspect of your CyberJeremy? You did mention the connection of your real social portrayal to CyberJeremy’s, but never went into detail on how you use the social network itself. And I would be interested in reading about that and how it collaborates with this “open-source” notion of Facebook usage. On top of that, maybe going into detail of specific Facebook features and how that portrays your values, like applications, chat, games, and etc. The writing was articulate and flowed with a consistent theme. There were parts that seemed wordy for a Wiki style piece, like in the authenticity section, but all in all good job analyzing your values in your use of Facebook.