Talk:Sharon Lee

Hi Sharon,

Good job on your identity article. I can relate to your desire to be short and concise on Facebook; more information does not necessarily mean more accurate, and being concise can still show aspects of your true self.

You seem to be very confident of which aspects of your profile are representative of your offline identity. There is no doubt you see yourself as a "no-nonsense" person, and that in developing your Facebook profile you have chosen to express yourself similarly. However, you are a complex human with feelings and thoughts, do you ever think you are filtering out important parts of yourself because you don't want to break this "conciseness" paradigm? For example, when your friend asked you how "Ann Arbor life" has been, you almost seem to make the choice to not interact with her. Your reasoning for replying in such a brief manner is that "Nothing has happened to Ann Arbor in the past year that she's been gone. No hurricane for us." Do you think that mentioning anything less than a hurricane would be uninteresting or wasted energy? I find it hard to believe that your friend only asked you because she wanted to know if an event on par with a hurricane had occurred.

I also thought your thoughts on profile pictures was interesting. I'm curious how you would answer the question, What is the purpose of a profile picture? You say that photos of people with their friends or photos that are "muddled" make it "hard to tell who the person is and what the photo means." While a straight-on headshot makes it easier to tell what someone looks like, does it convey more meaning and insight into their identity? I feel like, even if I can't see the person very clearly, Facebook profile pictures that have more going on sometimes help me to learn more about what someone is like.