I Tweet Therefore I Am Summary

A photograph, painting, canvas, or drawing today is not the same as it was a decade ago. Technology has evolved to the point where we can photoshop a person into a picture, enlarge a person’s butt, or even whiten people’s teeth. At what point do those technological advances cross a line? With social media ranging from Facebook and Twitter to Instagram and Tumblr, do these media sites promote egotistical behavior? In January of 2013, John Paul Titlow discusses some of the disadvantages and advantages that Instagram has in his essay: “#Me: Instagram Narcissism and the Scourge of the Selfie” that was posted on a website called ReadWrite. Although Instagram was primarily created to simply share pictures, it has evolved to do much more than that. Some businesses use it to advertise, some people use it to share their art, but then there are some people use it to flaunt their own personal lives in the form of pictures. Titlow acknowledges that Instagram is a desirable way to share art and diverse imagery, but additionally acknowledges that it can be a place where one can promote their own self-popularity. He explains that Instagram has become remarkably important in people’s lives to the point that they cannot view life past those Instagram likes (Titlow). Ultimately, Titlow succeeds in emphasizing the issues that Instagram has created by reason of the way he expresses his text, while furthermore expressing who the audience of his essay is, and by making his overall purpose clear.

In “ How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”, an extract from Jon Ronson’s book So You’ve Been Shamed, Jon Ronson uses interviews of people, appeals such as pathos and logos, and language from both sides of a situation in order to get answers to the question of how social media got to the point of causing such serious consequences. Both interviewees, “Hank” (in quotes for privacy purposes) and Adria ended up losing their jobs. The interviews show the emotions and thoughts from both people. “Hank” one day at work said a joke to his friend, “It was about a fictitious piece of hardware that has a really big dongle - a ridiculous dongle.” which was overheard by Adria.

In "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" by Peggy Orenstein, the writer begins the reading by describing a perfect Saturday morning outside with her daughter. While lying in the grass, Orenstein recognizes this moment as an opportunity to tweet. Peggy comes to the realization that her Twitter may be making her who she is. Peggy goes on to talk about a sociologist from the fifties named Erving Goffman who explains life is an act. Theorizing that people are always trying to perform and present different behaviors based on the context of the situation. The author connects this theory to the Twitter and how the world now explain everything they do minute by minute, leaving no room for privacy. Peggy then references Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T., who

“People can take their time when posting information about themselves, carefully selecting what aspects they would like to emphasize (Gonzales 80).” By controlling what information and self-attributes to share with the online world, an individual may present an idealized version of self that would not align with societal perceptions in the face-to-face interactions. Furthermore, Gonzales notes that recent research in computer-mediated communications suggests that online self-presentations can alter self-perceptions (80). As Orenstein says, “I tweet, therefore I am.” The online presentations of self can become the reality, or idealized reality, of the

Within Jenna Wortham's article, "Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)," Wortham discusses the impact that social media possesses, in which Wortham believes that technology is responsible for shaping people's lives negatively. From Wortham's previous experiences, she shares a moment in her life that made her realize that people often compare their lives to others excessively- one of the reasons why people have social media attachment issues. Wortham also expresses how social media users brag about their lives being better than others through exaggerated posts- something that shouldn't be encouraged. With effort to resolve this issue, Wortham considers and suggests Mr. Hofmann's advice to readers: go screenless for a certain

Peggy Orenstein in the article “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” (2010), featured in the New York Times asserts that people should not tweet for their followers but tweet for themselves; that we should not analyze our everyday actions due to how we would want our lives to be perceived by others. Peggy Orenstein supports her argument with rhetorical questions, statistics, and personal experiences. Her purpose was to ultimately convince the readers to think less about what your social media followers want to hear, and more about what you want to say. Orenstein writes in an empathetic tone most likely intended for people like herself, people who are realizing how social can make differentiating your person and persona difficult; however, it also reaches

Bill Keller in “The twitter trap” published in The New york Times (18 May 2011) notes that he felt as though he had poisoned his daughter by allowing her onto Facebook. He equates it to giving a drug and sees it as eroding a youth’s intellect or skills development memory skills, math skills, penmanship, innate sense of direction, attention span, problem solving and decision making abilities. Given his daily job, he is well aware of the global appreciation for the internet. However, what are the costs, the personal costs? Recently, the advancement of technology has started to accumulate some controversy.

While Tegu describes his surprise about the power of social media as his ideas on Tweets had such a rapid spread and aroused waves of comments and emotions, Sherry Turtle also introduces the strong power of technology that both changes the way people think of themselves and shapes our ways of being. According to her research, technology shifts us from connection to isolation, and in the future technology may become our only companies that will listen to our words and solve our loneliness. Simultaneously, Roger Kay narrates the increasing power of social media which can change our traditional behavioral patterns and modes of thought in“Multitasking: Good Or Bad?”. He indicates that we are likely to spread attention over different sources

Black Tweets matter, published through the Smithsonian, is an article about racial awareness in social media and, how much of an impact social networking can be crucial to cultural expression. Back in 2013, a female writer by the name of Alicia Garza had taken to Facebook, a social communication platform, to express herself in the George Zimmerman case and his recent acquitting. Zimmerman, whom at the time was being charged in the murder of Trayvon Martin, a young African- American youth, when a Florida jury dropped all charges against him. Expressing her love for her people and community Alicia and her friends sparked the now on growing movement "#Blacklivesmatter".

Walking through the masses of Valley’s hallways at the precise time and location, one might face the possibility of running into a black and red fashion statement screaming “I recognize male oppression” or “I advocate for men’s rights”.

Once people start tweeting, they won’t be able to stop at all. Social media has changed the way human beings interact with each other on a daily life. That’s why the author first starts off with an example of herself spending time with her daughter.

On the rainy Wednesday I learned that when there is bad weather the park has three options for running operations. Option #1 is that Tweetsie is run as normal and the show goes on as usual. Option #2 is running at half capacity, which means that only Main Street and the train will operate. All of the rides stop running and none of the shows take place during operating hours. Finally, Tweetsie has the option of just running train rides and closing all other aspects of the park. If this happens we let people in for free because all they would be able to do is ride the train. In the recent history of Tweetsie they’ve only closed twice and run a half-day once, so it’s common to keep the park open despite nasty weather. I also learned not to get my hopes up that I wouldn’t have to go into work if it’s raining in the morning!

From Tweeter: Is it too much to say that "the problem of refugees has caused the dilution of the nation's main body"?

I have more than a thousand friends, can tell you what Shaquille O’Neal and Paris Hilton are thinking of right now and got my last job without ever having applied for it. No, I’m not a celebrity or a multi-millionaire. I’m a citizen of the newly ‘flattened’ world [ (Friedman, 2007) ] and an avid user of Social Networking Sites (SNS’s). SNS’s such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are rewriting the way individuals communicate and express themselves. With the help of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, mashups and other social websites, new and creative ways of communication are being developed, transgressing geographic and cultural boundaries (Fu et al., 2007) [ (IBM,

The media influences body images. Having the perfect body image is posted everywhere from the television networks to magazines. Social media such Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, have a significant role in an adolescent's life. Anyone in the social network can post videos such as makeup tutorials, ads, dieting supplements. One example of how adolescent react to celebrities is when Kylie Jenner posted on social media on how she gets her big lips.Using a cup and putting it around your mouth, leaving it like that for about five minutes. Saying after, your lips are