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In “Straddling Online and Offline Profiles, Millennials Search for Identity” Rachel Lowry writes to discuss the idea of how millennials are facing an identity crisis, and search for their true self. As today’s 20-year-olds make online personalities to market themselves professionally and socially, some fear that the difference between the two can hinder them from discovering their true identity. “As today's younger generation navigates the transition to adulthood, reconciling between online and offline identities can be difficult.” ("Straddling Online and Offline Profiles, Millennials Search for Identity | Deseret News") Lowery states in her article. I agree, a great deal of millennials who have spent their whole lives with this advanced technology, …show more content…

Individuals conceived between the years of 1980 and 2000, as indicated by this article, experience serious difficulties finding their actual self due to the online networking outlets; they regularly depict another person life of a fantasy dream American life on the web. As today’s more youthful era makes the transition to adulthood, trying to accommodate between online and offline characters can be hard. “Van den Bergh asked 4,056 individuals, ages 15 to 25, when they felt they were or weren't being genuine online or logged off, with companions, folks, accomplices or employers.” Through this research he found, only half of those surveyed millennials believed themselves to be authentic while the other half felt as if they weren’t being genuine. “A fluffy portrayal of reality," said 27-year-old Angie Rideout, a beautician in Salt Lake City. ("Straddling Online and Offline Profiles, Millennials Search for Identity | Deseret …show more content…

Do you find a way to accommodate both, or find a center between the two? Mutual Leonard, a 29 year old said, “culture can be a source identity, Mormons with pioneer heritage, for example, say my grandmother walked across the plains. I'm not giving up my religion for anything. This is my identity.” Society and someone’s culture can plan youth for adulthood, they prepare young men to be men through ministry obligations in a congregation. In my opinion, the only way reconciliation will occur when you concentrate on something beyond yourself. All through this completive employment market with a specific end goal to get a leg up look for advancement through online assets have gotten to be gigantic; it's beginning to end up to a greater degree a standard system for the hiring party to survey your Face book page, Twitter, or LinkedIn profiles a standout amongst the most vital inquiries work seekers can ask nowadays is how searchable am I? Hanaike said, “If you want to get noticed, or if you want someone to see your qualifications, you have to show them, lest you get swept away with the tide." Sites like LinkedIn are utilized online networking WebPages for experts. “Numerous bosses audit competitor's LinkedIn profile as a screening procedure to find out about applicant's instruction and work history, aptitudes, supports, suggestions, proficient affiliations and the sky is the limit from there.” Still today, millennials, are trying figuring out how

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