Talk:Joe Demery

Joe,

   I enjoyed reading your avatar as it was full of creativity as the mother and father’s contrasting views kept my interest.  First of all, I liked the point you bring up on the mother's viewpoint of how Facebook is used to keep connected with your close friends rather than a networking site.  I believe perhaps you can mention more of what you actually do on Facebook such as chat, messages, or activity with your several groups.  I know you provide an example of your friends conversation in the B squad as a group, but in the father's section you say you have had very minimal activity in the past 6 years so how do you stay in touch with your friends through Facebook?  In addition, what keeps you from digi-suiciding from Facebook besides your groups because I know for me it’s keeping up with old high school friends?  
   Also, you state that "we should judge people on Facebook by how their friends post about them".  It would be nice to see an example of what your friends post about you and how they interpret it.  I know sometimes friends post inside jokes only your inner circle would understand and could post material about you that could still portray you as what the father views (the semi-alcoholic college student).  So maybe you could elaborate more on what you mean here because I feel like there are both sides to this.
   Another small thing is that I feel like you could clarify how you use your privacy settings because you say you change your name so that employers can’t search for you but you also say you don’t care what the public thinks of your posts with your friends so there’s no point in censoring what you say.  These are somewhat contradicting as you want to be private to employers, but then you don’t really care what others interpret how you interact with your friends so I’m just wondering maybe you’re private for professional reasons, but less private for social reasons?     
   Lastly, from a reader’s perspective, it seems that your viewpoints are more of your mother’s.  I suggest that you could say what you actually think about Facebook.  Ultimately, there was a lot of substance in your article as I think you connected your avatar to your real life in a creative way through contrasting the two perspectives of Digi-Joe.  All the photos were relevant with your points you made and supplemented to your article accordingly.  

- Johnson