Talk:Rachel Joyce
Peer Review 1
I think overall you made a genuine effort to analyze your Facebook profile, noting both the positive and negative aspects. I feel like you went beyond just noting some basic reasons as to why your Facebook has less information than in previous years. You actually stepped back and took a look at how you’ve changed as a person, and how that has affected your online portrayal.I like how you looked at both the larger picture of your timeline, but also smaller, specific elements, such as the absence of one of your friends in particular on your timeline. The use of a graph as one of your pictures in the “Lack of Content” section is a nice addition. It further proves the points you discussed under the same section.
One criticism I have is the lack of information under your “Likes” section. I think this has great potential, especially since you’ve admitted that your “Likes” section most closely identifies with the “real you.” There is an opportunity to discuss why you chose to portray yourself through that section, but not as much in the other sections of your profile.
- Marisa Lamberty
Peer Review 2
I understand exactly where your coming from in saying that your profile has been relatively stagnant over the past two years. I am also not an overly active Facebook user and can relate very well. I admire how honest you were about your authenticity, especially in saying that your "drive to be accepted" overpowered your Facebook personality. But what I struggle to understand is why your Facebook was more active when you were less authentic? I'd like to know how you feel about that if that is a fault of the Facebook community, yourself or a combination that forces you to embody a different identity than your own in order to receive posts, pictures, etc. on your profile.
I would have liked you to explain the last sentence of the "Lack of Content" section some more. That is a very important sentence which explains the whole rational for your declined Facebook use, yet I still don't understand why your Facebook page can't be transparent in your in order to be authentic. To me, in order for an online identity to be truly authentic, ones Facebook page MUST be transparent. Less censorship shows the true personality of oneself.
I thought the screenshot of your likes page was beneficial. Even just a screenshot can tell a lot about you, just as it does for the people you access you Facebook page. The next pictures was also great! The cutoff banner is a great example of a flaw of Facebook. And your commentary of this flaw is accurate.
While you did a great job of analyzing various aspects of your Facebook profile and identity, there a few questions that you leave unanswered that would intrigue the reader.
-Jeremy Kaplan
