Difference between revisions of "Talk:Alyssa Schmidt"

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Hello Alyssa. I enjoyed reading the progression of your social media presence since you first created one. I definitely agree with your overall point that social media only provides small portions of people's lives. I think there is room for improvement. A major point in your online identity claim is that people are not able to know you fully through social media. It's unclear if this is a question of authenticity or privacy. Of course, having your privacy settings to be strict prevents people from even knowing who you are on social media. You mentioned that your privacy setting helped you preserve an image, however, it's not necessarily the privacy setting that preserves your image, because people already bypassed the privacy setting once you allowed people to follow you on social media. Differentiate that because both are important attributes in your social media identity. Your privacy settings is important, but so is your choice to choose how much content you post for your social media followers to see. I also recommend backing up your discussion on privacy and control of your image with references to our readings. In your "The Early Days" portion, it's unclear if your talking about Facebook or Twitter. Is it about Facebook, Twitter, or both? Including secondary elements of your identity as well. At the moment, your wiki is only primary elements, but adding what other people are saying about you can round out your social media identity to the reader more.

1. In your "The Early Days" portion of your wiki, the parentheses about Twitter isn't needed. It was a bit confusing. It's fine to say that you narrated your life in both Facebook and Twitter.
2. In your last two sections of the wiki, you start with the same word "well." Change one of them to avoid redundancy.

Overall, good job!

-David Kim

Hi Alyssa, I really enjoy the sort of inverted structure you present in your intro (and then flesh out in the final paragraph)—the idea of what you can't learn from someone's social media presence. I think this is an interesting take on the autobiography. I think what's missing from your autobiography is attention to the audience. Who do you think is viewing your profiles? Who do you intend to be viewing your profiles? You discuss briefly how you have different privacy settings for family and friends, but I think you could expand on that a bit. You show your profile how it looks to someone who is not friends with you, but what does it look like for friends? How do you decide what to share with which group of people? Those are just some questions you might consider exploring if you were to add to this. I also would like to see a bit more on how the different platforms impacted your social media identity. Why did you expand to Twitter and Snapchat? Was it to interact with different people or express a different side of yourself? I think the kind of 'social etiquette' unofficially assigned to different platforms is really interesting and might be relevant to include here. Overall, great start! ---Ashley Bock (ambock)