Paper discusses how individuals portray their public identity on Facebook by analyzing 100 “My 25s”, which are posts that prompt users to reveal 25 facts about themselves.
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Paper discusses how individuals portray their public identity on Facebook by analyzing 100 “My 25s”, which are posts that prompt users to reveal 25 facts about themselves.
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Abstract: This research discusses how individuals assess and portray their identity on the popular Internet social networking site, Facebook. Facebook contains a message post entitled “My 25,” that prompts the Facebook user to reveal 25 facts about themselves. The results of this exercise provide knowledge about how users portray their public image to their social groups. Using the assistance of four inter-raters, I have examined 100 “My 25s”. Open coding and content analysis were used in the analysis of this sample for the purpose of understanding public displays of identity. To complete the analysis, this data were compared to Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development. This project combines these elements to create a better understanding of how identity presentation can be witnessed in an online environment and provides examples of how these presentations vary throughout the lifespan.
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