Social Media: What Does Your Tattoo Say?

As we have discussed in class, your social media life is as permanent as a tattoo. As we begin Unit 3, we will be dealing with social media as a way to explore identity and professionalism and to get started, take a look at your own "tattoo." Are you the next Rebecca Martinson?? Below I've included links to the article and video we used in class today.

CNN article on Rebecca Martinson

TEDtalk: Your Online Life, As Permanent as a Tattoo

Before class on Monday, read the "Focus on Facebook" PDF (located on Canvas) and write a blog post that does the following:

1) Makes a claim about what "kind" of person you represent yourself as on social media by
2) Analyzing any 5 photos, tweets, status updates, captions, conversations, etc. from a social media site you currently use and then
3) Think about what kind of person this is a  representation of-- do you think it is accurate? What can you do to change this?
4) At this point in your life, do you feel like you have a responsibility to maintain a social media presence? Uphold a certain type of identity? Do you feel pressured to censor yourself in any way? Why or why not?
5) Think about your future career-- what would you do if you were interviewing for your dream job and when you sat down, your interviewer handed you a print out of your most recent emails, Facebook posts, tweets, or Instagrams? Would you still get the job?

****You do not have to discuss or analyze any aspect of your social media account on the blog that you feel invades your privacy or is inappropriate for our academic setting, but if you encounter these issues, it may be a sign that your social media account is representing a person that you don't think is accurately representative of who you really are or who you want to be.
****If you do not have and/or use any social media accounts, you may browse public accounts and analyze 5 posts from a public figure, athlete, band, politician, etc., and make a claim about what kind of "person" they seem to be. Do not analyze any of your friends' accounts.