Social Media And Social Identity

Though many characterize their identity with others’ perception of themselves, sincere identity is rather an internal set of beliefs and values that shape a person’s behavior--inside out, not outside in. In the modern world of technology, identity increasingly has become the image of someone created online, put on display for the internet. The era of interconnectivity, technological social interactions, and instant feedback develops an insecure, outward-looking society that forms their social media platforms into “highlight reels” of their life, posting perfectly filtered and angled masterpieces of their most exciting activities. Rather than try to compare their genuine life with these seemingly vastly superior profiles, most create

Identity’s Toxic Relationship With Society Identifying identity is a trying task in its own. Of course, it can not be narrowed down or oversimplified. Most people are not exactly the same, in fact, almost none are. Yet, we rely on our identities to find people to connect, share, and even identify with. Who we are and who we want people to see depends too much on society in this day age.

A person’s identity is determined by family influences, friends’ influences, and personal experiences. A person’s identity is shaped and modeled after the people they’re around, like their

There are two different dimensions of our identities: ethnicity and race. Ethnicity refers to one’s belonging to a specific cultural, or racial group that makes up culture, race language, and/or place of origin. For example, one can be African-American but have different ethnicities, one African-American and the other African-Caribbean decent. Race is a social construct that can be changed over time. Historically, referring to its specific characteristics one possesses based on: ethnicity, religion, or language; today's its classified solely based upon the color of one’s skin. Nevertheless, ethnic and racial identities are important and instill a sense of belonging and identifying with that specific group through attitude, behaviors. Moreover,

The social identity theory is a theory developed by Henry Tajfel, in which Tajfel believes that who we are socially determines how many positive feelings we have towards ourselves. Basically, if we like where we stand socially, then we will like who we are and display happiness. In this theory, Tajfel labels the “in group” and the “out group” and says that we will always compare our “in group” to another’s “out group.” By comparing these groups, we develop a better personal view on ourselves (King, 2009). A big factor of the social identity theory is that the groups will tend to critique the differences of the groups, and overlook the similarities. A modern day example of the social identity theory would be your everyday high school cheerleaders versus band members. The cheerleaders think of themselves as the queen bees of the school,

Through a cultural and social lens identity has to do with a person's appearance, beliefs, and language. People with cultural differences have different identities. Appearance-wise, they tend to have a different skin color, a different dress code, different facial features, different hair, etc. These characteristics can easily help others categorize what cultural group they are in. People with different cultural backgrounds sometimes dress a certain way so you can easily see their identity through their clothes. The beliefs of a certain culture is also a part of their identity being that it is something they believe within themselves. Many cultures have different religious systems such as Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. They either chose

Intersectionality in the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle Intersectionality is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination and/or discrimination. Intersectionality is a feminist sociological theory first brought forth by Kimberle’ Crenshaw, where she defined it as a methodology of studying the relationships among multiple dimension and modalities of social relationships and subject formations. (Taylor 2015) With identity being social and historical constructed concept, individuals figure out their own identity and the identity of others through interactions with family, friends and especially the media. The media reflects our constructed concept of identity with images, works and characters.

In this modern age, the majority of society has adapted to social media and the newest technology to fit around our lives. Technology provides tools that are imperative to the making and the use of other tools. It is a tool in itself. Technology is changing rapidly; so rapidly, in fact, there can be cultural gaps between generations. The construction of social media has enabled access to innovative phenomenon, broken barriers, changed our perspectives on ideas, and has even opened doors to new opportunities.

Identity in a sociological sense is more than individual genetics or individuality. Self identity is made up by many characteristics including; our personal experiences, beliefs, socio-economic status and other factors. Society plays a huge role in determining identity, although true identity generally isn’t a true reflection of an individual’s self identity. Over the generations there have been

Your identity is something that reflects your background and culture, and shows who you are. It’s something that is always changing as you meet new people, move to new places, or simply could just change out of the blue. In the article “I’m a Social (network) Drinker: Alcohol- Related Facebook Posts, Drinking Identity, and Alcohol Use, the authors looked at the associations between social media and alcohol use and how they affect our identity. Because we are all human,we are all trying to be accepted by society, which causes people to shape their identities to the certain situation.

The social identity of African-Americans is one that is considerably disregarded by society due to its unique and complex nature. The term social identity refers to a person’s sense of who they are based on their group membership(s). According to the Social Learning Theory created by Henri Tajfel, “the groups which people belonged to were an important source of pride and self-esteem.” Tajfel states that identity is formed in three stages: social categorization, social identification, and social comparison.

Identity, an individual's sense of self obtained from his/her thinking mind. This identity makes up a life story, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that continuously go through the mind and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All these things make up a person's sense of self. Although that sense of self seems to be predicted by other factors such as social media. Analyzing news feeds and enduring 3 minute ads seems to encourage social media to predict an identity that reflects an individuals real identity. Analyzing everything clicked on, videos watched or pages liked social media then creates ads that focus on that particular individuals interests. These programmed identities seem to be very similar, yet very different than actual identities.

How does social media usage by teenagers and young adults affect academic performance, attitude towards school, and concept of identity?

Tom Marvolo Riddle from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series had stored parts of his soul into different inanimate objects called horcruxes, which caused him to lose control of himself and become the infamous, Lord Voldemort. This gave him the ability to live even though his physical body was gone and his soul continued to thrive in his set of carefully selected objects, patiently waiting for the right time to strike.

In the world we live in today, people have the opportunity to interact with one another due to the advancement in technology. For many years people relied on the traditional ways of communications, for example pay phones, send letters, a house phone, in person and they even used web cam’s. Presently, people rely on modern day methods of communication such as sending text messages, emails or even messaging via social. The development of the internet has made it so much easier for people to communicate that Social Media has become the place where people interact more than ever in a mere second.