Week Six - Reconstructing Identity through Digital and Social Media

It is interesting to witness the rapidly changing pace of Social Networking Sites and the identity we reconstruct and create for ourselves on sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Tumblr, Formspring amongst other social networking sites.

It can be thought, that through these social networking platforms, we are creating a narrative of our own lives for others to read. However, these are perhaps not fully formed, timelined and structured narratives we are perhaps used to reading in autobiographies/biographies. The identities we create for ourselves are most likely to be fragmented pieces of our feelings and lives that are not true or accurate pieces of information from our own identities. On Facebook for example, users only choose to share information or create identities which will look