How does technology influence our identity? Nancy Hass pointed out in her article, "In your facebook.com," that people, mainly college students, try to portray themselves through different categories. First I would like to talk about facebook.com. The Facebook is a networking webiste in which you can keep up with old friends or befriend the new people you meet in class. By becoming friends with someone on facebook, they can have access to your personal page. The things on your page such as your dislikes/likes, groups, and all of your actions done on the site will be visibile to everyone you are friends with. Hass says in the article, "These communities can be postive or negative." This is relvent to what you put on your page becuase what a person puts on their page will reflect a positive or negative image of the person. The facebook member needs to keep in mind what they put on their page can come back and bit them in the butt, in a sense. Everyone will be able to see what they aredoing including future employers. If the person page portrays themselves as always drinking beer, partying, and have inappropriate sayings on it labels them negatively.
Technology does influnce our identity. Hass says "Facebook illumintes the changing nature of public and private identity." The internet allows people to voice their private thoughts to the public. Many people seem to feel more open about how they feel when they writting on either facebook or another blogging site. The private is now public. Technology is ever changing, and more and more people find ways to access a persons private profile, so all in all a person needs to think before they post certain things about themselves.
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