Don’t bother introducing yourself anymore. That information is already on the Internet. Your Facebook profile says it all when it displays your friends, pictures, interests, and basic information in one convenient spot. This online platform tells viewers any information they would ask for upon meeting you: your name, your school, your interests, and more. As Facebook grows more popular, more people will have access to your profile and will be able to see any of the personal information that you choose to post. Even if Facebook fails, another social networking site will rise afterwards, probably prompting you for even more information. What is the point of gathering all of this information in one place, and how does it benefit the viewer? We should further examine why people look at other users’ profiles in order to understand what information people are most interested in seeing and why they care about this information.
By aiming to understand people’s motives for viewing other users’ profiles, we can ensure that giving others access to certain information will not harm us later on. When considering this question, we should keep in mind the different groups on Facebook that could be viewing other people’s profiles. Two of the bigger groups, parents and friends, will be the groups we discuss. Some studies show that people use people’s profiles to collect information about their friends (Walther, Van Der Heide and Kim). The information we choose to post about ourselves is not the only information on Facebook about us. Someone could be looking at your best friend’s profile right now to find out more about you.
In the following pages, we will discuss relevant information that could give possible explanations as to why people would ...
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...is evident that this is false. Facebook is a place where someone can rhetorically analyze someone else and find out who they exactly are. Although people can post anything they want others to see, this is true off the screen as well. When people first meet, they only show the other person what they want them to see. Someone who uses Facebook more than someone who does not will have more of a relationship with the audience due to a stronger ethos, pathos and logos. Facebook is a site that allows us to analyze other people but also ourselves. By taking time to rhetorically analyze your Facebook profile, one might see themselves differently afterwards. It is important to know what energy you give off to others. If someone is interested in hiring you or getting to know you, having a profile that makes you look immature and not credible, may cause them to turn you down.
is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department at Albright College, allowing her to be credible for discussing the topic of how Facebook psychologically affects relationships. She has written an article on Psychology Today and argues that Facebook has effects relationships. However, instead of taking a purely negative stance on the subject, she discusses the benefits, such as increasing communication, and consequences, like causing jealousy, of Facebook usage on relationships. The limitation of her argument is that she solely discusses Facebook use and does not address other forms of social media. Nevertheless, a majority of her argument can still be applied to many social media outlets, such as Instagram, Twitter, etc. This article is relevant to my research because Facebook is still a commonly used form of social media, as a relationship is not considered “official” unless one’s relationship status is updated on the website. Furthermore, the research is applicable to my own because her findings are about Facebook, which is a website I intend on including in my
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