does social media reflect the real you? Why?
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Answer:
Yes
Explanation:
Both, and I emphasize, both of our online and offline behavior are real. They are our real selves. One doesn’t get more validity from the other, if real is equated with being genuine or authentic.
Before we get into the issue, the bigger assumption needs to be problematized.
Is online behavior “false” behavior? Why do we assume that we don’t show our “real” face in online behavior, which must be photoshopped beyond duckface selfies?
Why do we assume that the behavior we engage in online, is thrust upon us from external devices of entities, where failing to comply could bring us a penalty of being dead in some ether-chamber through constant torture?
The semantics of “real” is the subject of a more academic discussion, but if we are hung up on the logic of “real” behavior of “real” life as “true”, “authentic”, “unfiltered”, “genuine”, then we are only pulling more wool over our eyes.
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