Mead

One thing that I liked a lot that we went over during our Facebook curation was when we discussed the concept of "I" and "Me" and how we present ourselves online and how it shapes who we are as people. I think its kind of ridiculous  how some people choose to have a fake persona of who they are while online, but maybe they have a reason as to why they have to act that way, the people that they've been in contact with have treated them for being their true self which is also something that I want to discuss, why is there such a huge phenomena of the worst people coming out online, that people turn into such awful people with such high pride that they otherwise wouldn't have in the real world? My best guess, as much as anyone else , is that behind the computer screen people have this power trip that lets them just do and say whatever they want under the guise of no one will ever know who you are under the mask of anonymity. Which brings that "I" and "Me" thing again, what had happened to make people want to lash out like that? Obviously society does and who they interact with but no excuse is able to cover how awful they are. But anyway its more of how people present themselves like I've been talking about earlier is why does our social media self become so corrupted that we have to present ourselves in a different light just so people will like us or give us the basic attention we crave. I feel like that why social media has become as big as it has, that humans crave what we're denied in some of our lives, attention and for just basic communication. We always want contact with anyone despite what the subject matter is, for validation and love in the forms of retweets and favorites and for flooded notification feeds. But in the end that's innocent we all fault in this and there's nothing wrong with it but we draw a line when it turns into lying , cat fishing and abuse of being able to say whatever you want.
What I truly want to discuss is how something so innocent can turn into something so twisted, its OK to crave attention and want people to interact with you, to have friends online but as I explained earlier, we shouldn't abuse the power internet gives us by being behind a screen and not being able to have any repercussions, especially if you use an alias or live far away from the people you're harming. And while I'm not focusing entirely on Mead anymore it's still somewhat branches off of what he's talking about, how we want attention and how we sever our true selves from the ones we present online and how we'll go to any means to achieve that end even by being rude and as fake as possible. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we're all tempted to live out our fantasies online, by that being a bully or by being the nicest person ever but that's just what the internet can give us. We can be who we want and what we want to do is possibly endless on the safety of the internet, even here now am I at fault at this, I'm more open on what I want to discuss without the pressure of being embarrassed in public for my own opinions, but that also must be my own disconnect on how I even present myself online and offline. Mead discovered a good way to explain why people are so different online and in real life that we should study more because it's so different to what we have experienced in real life, like how we're different to family and friends than to complete strangers. We present the person we want the people who we want to approve us to be, or to be a decent interesting person to the people we care about, and in this case, we want to be interesting to the people who follow us on Twitter ,Tumblr and Facebook.  In the end all we want is validation and it makes people do crazy things, by being rude or by being a totally different person.