Identity

In the 21^st century, Internet becomes an important tool that spreads the news in the world, it also contributes the new way of communication between people. Moreover, most of people rely on the digital networking to build their social hub and also in their workplace. Therefore, Internet forms the movements of media network in nowadays. ‘New digital identities of young people are shaping in challenging, changing existing social and cultural norms’ (Chalkley, 2013).

Personally speaking, Internet brings me lots of conveniences and fun in both studying and social networking. In that case, there are some social websites that I used to share my interests, comments or pictures, and moreover, I think using these websites is a good way to make friends or chatting with them easily. For example, I like using Facebook to upload my photos, and sometimes I write some articles to share funny things that I interested in. And I also play online games with my friends on Facebook, I think it is a good idea and function to link lots of online games on the website that attract lots of people to use Facebook in that case.

Here is my Facebook link. https://www.facebook.com/huang.yuehan
Another social website is Weibo that I use every day. It likes Twitter and it is very popular in China. I use Weibo to post some interesting news and pictures or repost Weibo from others to make some comments. I can get lots of fun for using these social websites because we can share comments to each other and get interaction instantly.

On the other hand, there is an interesting phenomenon, more and more people especially young women, they like to upload much of profile photos on their personal websites to attract people’s attention. ‘With photos and other personal details, Facebook and Myspace generate public privacy into a new form of narcissism’ (Hills, 2009). I also like to put my profile photos on my Facebook, once someone comments my photo, I will see it. I think it is a good way to let my friends know my current dressing and makeup, it also can improve self-identity from those positive comments. Additionally, I attend to an online community few months ago, this is a Cosplay community that people can Cos any characters they like from Japanese anime.

 Here are some pictures of what does Cosplay look like.

Then we put photos of our dressing costumes on the website, and share comments with other community members about the outcomes of Cosplay. Furthermore, we talk about the plots of these Animations and which character does we like the most. This is a really good social websites for me because I can find more people that they have the same interests with me and know people from different places. In the modern society, people use Internet wildly as it has lots of functions brings benefits to conduct the development of new media. It enriches my social life and gives me much information through the digital networks.
 

References

Chalkley, T 2013, Teen identity in the digital age: who exactly is ―me‖ now days?‘, conference paper presented at Transformational Communication and the New Asia, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Hills, M 2009, Case study: social networking and self-identity‘, in Creeber, G and Martin, R (eds.), Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, Open University Press, Maidenhead, pp. 117-21

 

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