Talk:Alissa Chan

Hi Alissa,

I think that this piece is very well done. Whenever I found myself wondering something such as “why are you mentioning this? or how does this make you feel?” you answered my question within the next few paragraphs. I liked how you first talked about what you put on your profile and then worked off of that to talk about how this relates to you as a person in real life vs. online. My favorite thing that you wrote was, “As long as we don't deceive others in the way we represent ourselves, we don't need to reveal everything about our personality to be "true to ourselves" and other people.” I find this to be very true, and I feel like the evidence you have presented about your profile supports your feeling of this. It seems like you show a decent part of yourself on Facebook, and you believe that what you present is true, but it doesn’t show everything about you, and you are OK with this. I feel like I do the same thing and I agree with you completely, my Facebook doesn’t show everything about me, but why should that mean that it’s false or unauthentic, good point!

I guess my only criticism would be that I would have liked to see more of an introduction that would have laid out what you were going to say. Like I said, I liked how you answered all the questions that came up for me while I read this, but it would have been nice to know that those questions were going to be answered from the get go. Other than that though, very nice job, I enjoyed reading your article.

-Mara