@CailinJohnso
Media use changes the user in many ways especially with the use of Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook and Twitter people can make themselves look like anyone that they want to, making you think that they are someone that they are not. With Facebook especially you can take pictures and post statuses that are completely unlike who you are in person. Video games and virtual realities add another level to being able to be whatever you want to be with the creation of avatars. “.. a second life where they could look like and act like whatever they chose by using a digital avatar.” (Coleman p. 12) In video games you can create an avatar to look like whatever you chose which could be as far away from the real you as possible. Media such as Facebook and Twitter also change the user by giving them something to hide behind. Users will say things on Facebook and Twitter that they would never say face to face with someone. It gives them a feeling like they don’t have to be responsible for the things that they say or do. Facebook and Twitter also allow for “…real time interactions…” (Coleman p. 13) This makes people feel like the conversations that they are interacting in are reality when they are actually happening in a virtual world, or on a media such as Facebook. We can be anywhere and have a conversation with someone that it possibly thousands of miles away but do to instant interactions such as text we feel like it is as real as a face to face conversation.
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