Talk:Ritam Mehta

Hey Ritam! I thought your autobiography was extremely candid and insightful. I liked how you showed how your statuses changed over time and tied that back to your personality as well. The quality of writing was also really good throughout this piece and it was entertaining as well- I found myself laughing a few times. From your autobiography, I was able to get a better idea of why your Facebook is constructed the way it is, however, I think there is also room to elaborate on some other factors. For example, you state how alot of the content on your profile is "manufactured" and maybe going into this some more would be really interesting. Additionally, adding some more information about your audience and how that shapes the content you share would also be a good point of elaboration. You introduce a lot of great points and overall, this was a really enjoyable read and I definitely felt as though you were being genuine in your attempt to write this autobiography. Thanks for sharing this information with us!

-Rishika

Hi Ritam,

I really love the way that you organized your post as to look almost like it's own Facebook timeline. I think you did a really interesting exploration of the idea of Facebook as a digital memory (which is something that I kind of wanted to do with my own autobiography post) but I think you took it to the next level. Looking through your early posts reminds me of my own journey through Facebook, especially since when we first made pages and the way we interact with them now seem to be very similar. Your tone was super authentic and I think you did a really good job of genuinely expressing the way you feel about your Facebook presence and the ways that you have and currently construct that presence. I think you could work a little bit on the formatting. Some of the spacing of the words and images is a little strange with some one or two line pieces being broken up. This is just an aesthetic thing but something to think about. Overall I thought this was awesome and loved the super genuine and relatively light tone.

Best,

Dylan

Paul Commentary

Hi Ritam,

I really enjoyed your piece because it felt very real, thoughtful, and insightful. I feel like the things you mentioned like “I like knowing that I made”, “I like feeling a sense of superiority” is something that a lot of people also believe but don’t have the courage to say it like you do. It really seems like you left nothing on the table when going through and analyzing your avatar for this assignment, and it really shows in your writing.

The statuses that you posted were hilarious and I can honestly say I that going back to read my own posts I had similar thoughts (“Unwitting social suicide”). It was interesting to see your transition from the Day 1 and 2 posts to today and how much your Facebook persona has changed. I do think that one thing you’re missing in your piece is a theme. It seems like your theme is authenticity and how that’s changed over time and it would have been nice to see a connection to some of the readings or ideas we’ve learned in class.

Overall I really enjoyed reading your piece, had a good laugh, and appreciate your authenticity.

-Paul Pal

Ritam --

Nice work -- I thought your analysis managed to attack a lot of the interesting issues that we all encounter throughout our Facebook use without sounding too academic. The statuses you posted were all really funny and pretty indicative of how most of us dealt with Facebook as a new medium during our early teen years. I liked your commentary about the way you personally use Facebook as a medium to discuss pop culture.

As a side note, do you any kind of comedy? I feel like you would be pretty good at it.

-- Lauren Guldan