Talk:Sam Fennelly

This is a comment for later. -- John Voorhess

Hi Sam!

This is an enjoyable piece that has many sentiments that I, along with many others, relate to in terms of having a "surface-level" social media presence. I appreciate how much your voice comes through the piece and that you explicitly told us you know you don't find maintaining a social media presence important and too demanding of time. This is very authentic and sometimes a hard thing for "millennials" to admit given that we are largely defined by our intimate relationship with technology. It was really interesting to read your interactions with AIM and Smashboard. You go into a bit about your behavior on those sites, but I think there's definitely room to dive deeper into how your activity in Forums especially defined your online presence and why that was so different from what you showed on AIM. I'd be interested to know what unique attributes or differences between these two platforms compelled you to act differently when interacting on them. Additionally, you could expand that idea by tying it back to Facebook and explaining the differences there. Also, I think you could expand on this idea "It wasn't until college that I created a profile with my real name attached to it which definitely shifted how I portrayed myself online." How did your full, real name play such a big difference in how you portrayed yourself online? In terms of your quality of writing, I think the overall flow was really nice! There are also a couple of sentences that need correct punctuation and an occasional "too" instead of "to" mistakes. Thanks for writing such a great statement!

---Tiffany Sheu