W11 : What you post is what you are.

We approach several aspects of Facebook such privacy, the use, or the future of this social network for example. Let’s try to have a look at the profile itself. What does it show ? What does it mean ? Who are we trying to convince ? What do we want to say to the users of this platform of network’s generator ? “Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization » (Back 2009) defines perfectly consequences of a digital life. Since the beginning, I always said that the real life and the cyber life are strongly connected, on so many aspects. Not only about your updates that indicate that you are single or you are heading to the university. Moreover, as we saw previously, this kind of information feed burglars with a golden spoon. Even if it is a part of your privacy, posting that and you are exposed. Furthermore, the connection could be seen like a transposition of your own personality into the digital world. There is no particular dramatic consequences, often it is just a reflect of what you are. But if you compare it to the case of Second Life, which is the most accurate example of virtual life, people gets an avatar and are able to live their self-idealisation life. Is it seen like an escape of the real life ? Just an other way to live an other better life, I guess. But, if I want to counter argument, I can pretend that we can’t compare it because, Second Life is a world of avatars, and Facebook just a succession of profiles with just a picture for the equivalence of avatar. Or, each profiles could be consider as an avatar, and if we follow my previous deduction, it is an self-idealisation. According to Back, after they have done the survey on 236 users of Online Social Networking Sites (OSNs), they compare the profile of each user and matched it with their answers from the test. They conclude just simply that our profile is a reflect of what we are. Maybe, I could be agreeing with these researches, but I find the strategy pretty simple. Even if they based their questions on fundamentals such as TIPI (Ten Item Personality Inventory) or BFI (Big Five Inventory), they classified users in only five categories of personality. This can’t be a generality, so it would mean that if someone post a video clip about rabbits hunting, it means that this person goes for the wear of fur ? That is a reasoning quite straightforward.