Talk:Smrithi Dharmarajan
Overall I enjoyed reading your autobiographic analysis of your facebook avatar; your writing voice and style were engaging and flowed well. There were some grammatical mistakes, but they didn't detract much from the overall effect. You could have gone into much deeper analysis/self reflection on a variety of subjects that you brought up, however, and it often left me desiring more information. What does your openness and level of intimacy on facebook say about yourself? What insights into yourself have you gained by the secondary elements of your facebook? You appear to be of the mindset that your profile gives a good idea of yourself; do you think a person's identity can be truly/accurately summed up like that? You mention that your status updates are there to entertain and engage, often with a target viewer in mind; this is a huge aspect of a consciously constructed identity, talk about it. Overall, instead of just telling us that you did something on facebook, like cropping/editing your profile pictures, tell us why you did it, why you felt the need to. I did like the idea that facebook has become more than a social tool, however, and that now it is used as a record/album.
-Craig Peters
Smrithi, Your autobiography was really enjoyable to read. The style was very not very formal which made me feel like you were talking directly to me and the flow was great. I like that you had a nice introduction to each section and that you had separate sections for the primary and secondary elements of your identity. I thought it was great that you talked about other social networking sites that you use to explain in more detail how you portray yourself using social media. I think your line, "I believe Facebook has grown to be much more than just pictures or what other see" is really relevant to social media today. You really express that social media is not just for fun, it goes way beyond that. You mentioned that you are conscious of coworkers viewing your profile, so you filter what you allow on your profile. Your point about integration between your real and virtual self shows that you divest a lot of your time using your Facebook, showing its significance in your life. When you spoke about having profile picture ADD, it illustrated how genuine your attitude was towards this assignment and how your personality extends to the internet. It is refreshing that you were honest so that people reading your autobiography can really try to understand you as a person, which is extremely important. -Kaitlin
