Social Media Scrapbooking

So we as people use our social media accounts as scrapbooks almost and what I mean by that is we post to be bale to see our memories at a later time. Diaries did this before social media was a thing only to be picked up and analyzed by someone else so that another person could analyze our lives in their own mind. Which is what social media does, people look at our social media profiles to analyze them in their own brain and think what they want of us. Not everyone is going to analyze you the same way by what they see, but most people either know you or don't know you. They know you as an actual person or as what they see on social media.

Humphrey said it him self that we play different roles in each portion of our life which is molded by who we hang around with or who we are around the most. There is a difference between the team, the clique and thyself. Basically you act different in all 3 scenarios. You can act one way around the team, but when you hang around your clique you act another way, but when your by yourself you act a completely different way.

Humphrey explains how social media does identity work by how you post. "Performances of self, presentations of self and self-representation coexist," so how we post for ourselves for "scrapbooking purposes" and for other to see how we change or how we are constantly changing. You can see this happen if you know someone well enough when they go through their change of culture. One you jump into the social media life by constantly posting for your old high school friends who you think still give a shit about you, there is no going back. You have the social media account and you get the urge to post something when you start doing it in rhythm. It becomes part of your identity of the posting and how you express yourself through social media.

I've seen this happen in real life with one of my friends. In high school he was one of the kids that acted weird and had weird tendencies that got on peoples nerves. He then kept the same tendencies during his freshman year, but then found a clique a he slowly adapted around their personalities and changed how he acted around his clique and others. The problem was that he still had the same tendencies when he wasn't around his clique. I mean they weren't as bad but you could still see them.

So now as he has adapted to his friends and their social tendencies, he also adapted how active he is on social media. Since the people he hangs around with are thirsty for likes and complete social media addicts. he has become one too. He lives off of feedback from social media and uses it as his scrapbook per say. He has become what Humphreys has talked about for the last 4 chapters. We can see how quickly stuff like this can come about. Within a years time, his social life had changed in the blink of an eye.

How Humphreys explains social media remembrancing. "Remembrancing is creating a media trace about an experience that allows us to hold on to moments or experiences." (Humphrey's, 74) We all do it, but how he adopted it because of how he saw he clique do it. Which another expression of personality and self. The more and more we post on social media makes us feel good as people because we get to see memories of ourselves and friends, but to other people we could be seen as social media freaks.