Chapter 2 of The New Digital Age claims that there are more people online than there are in the world. How can this be? It is because that the majority of us have multiple profiles online. Not only do we have multiple profiles, but we also have multiple personalities. I for one have talked with a lot of individuals who live a different life than what Facebook shows they live. I feel it is safe to say that basically every person represents their life on Facebook differently. Not only does this happen, but I also know people who act differently across the different social media websites. For example: one individual I know is very active on Twitter, but not so much on Facebook. The posts he makes are also more vulgar on Twitter. This is because he is a counselor for a summer camp and he is friends with most of the kids that attend that camp on Facebook. He doesn't want to have these kids see how he actually talks in other places.
Chapter 3 goes on to talk about the control of the internet worldwide. As we have seen, attempting to sensor what individuals do on the internet does not go over smoothly. People have had the freedom to do as they pleased and they don't want to give any of it up. How well will relationships evolve as we can become connected with more and more people? We have already seen how Facebook affected the revolutions in Egypt just a few years ago. There is a lot more potential for this to happen in the future.
I agree that people do live multiple personalities through the internet. Catfish is a perfect example of this.
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