{"id":1637,"date":"2010-05-18T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:48:15","slug":"living-vicariously-through-virtual-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/05\/18\/living-vicariously-through-virtual-me\/","title":{"rendered":"living vicariously through virtual me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Tammy Green (aka Zesmerelda)  on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48889116659@N01\/4281462125\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2794\/4281462125_366552e0d0_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Using Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-twitter-20100514,0,5217392.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports that there can be a disconnect between our &#8220;real life&#8221; and virtual personalities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter,  encourage members to use their actual identities doesn&#8217;t mean people are  presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Some  psychologists and sociologists who have studied usage habits on Twitter,  Facebook and popular dating sites say there&#8217;s little correlation  between how people act on the Internet and how they are in person.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A sociologist argues that people may polish up their online selves, and she thinks that what happens on the web is likely to have consequences for the real world person:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Online, people tend to exaggerate their personas because they have  much more time to revise and calculate the content they present than in  spontaneous face-to-face interactions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The persona online may be  much more fabulous, much more exciting than the everyday life that  they&#8217;re leading,&#8221; said Julie Albright, a digital sociologist at USC,  &#8220;because they see everybody else doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, in many ways,  has become a personal broadcast medium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has turned people  into mini-broadcasters,&#8221; Albright said. &#8220;It makes them in a way stars of  their own reality shows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Albright points out that actions online  can, however, influence real-life behavior. A new batch of followers on  Twitter could translate into a more positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can  go back to their lives and have a boost of confidence,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times reports that there can be a disconnect between our &#8220;real life&#8221; and virtual personalities: Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, encourage members to use their actual identities doesn&#8217;t mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life. Some psychologists and sociologists who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,129,37,12],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-media","tag-social-psychology","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}