Identity and Role Play

http://anthrocyber.blogspot.com/2009/05/identity-construction-and-self.html

This article looks at all the aspects of Facebook within the circle of relatives, friends, and other communities and looks at its effects on how we view ourselves and others. Turkle talks about this, and how it may at first appear to be constructive in creating an idea self, but in the end it is really more stressful because you try to tailor things to look good for everybody. In the end, you are not really being yourself in the way that you are yourself in real life.

"The virtual world of each person’s Facebook page consequently becomes an open book of personal identity that in the physical world may take years to decipher." This is another way of saying that everything is open to everyone in an instant; there is no discovery of each other as would be in a personal relationship in the real world. I think this is an interesting study on how Facebook has created a new culture online on interaction and relationship.