Week 6 Response of Realife

"How are you?"

"Did you have a good reading period?"

"Did you do something special in reading period?"

"What you are going to do?"

"Do you want to have dinner with me today?"

That are recent communications between me and my friends. Simple and real.

"You are beautiful!"

"I like this style."

"The second photo is extremely well taken. The sunset color and your coat are perfectly matched. 👍 I like it." (first photo)

“I haven't seem this kind of fruit in reality! Only heard it is called jobuticaba. It is delicious?" (second photo)

"You are right."

That are recent communications between me and my friends on my phone.

See the difference of my personality between online and offline? I'm outgoing online, and I encourage others and share my positive energy to friends. In contrast, I am quiet and shy to speak my thoughts and acting polite and boring in reality. I admire the stranger who stopped me in Library yesterday, and she said "I like your outfit." I said "thanks" and left. I admire her because she made what I cannot do. I always genuinely wanted to praise people and their works, but too shy to speak out. That's my online and offline personality. Both are my real personality, my true self.

As I discovered, our personality are different online and offline. However, that doesn't mean mediated interactions and experiences are fake, while our physical ones are authentic and real. I speak out my thoughts on media more than in physical life. I agree there are people showing, overacting, or mediating their selfies. That's their right to do with their online profile, and you have to right to believe or disgust it.

Recognizing Jurgenson's opinion of the documents online and online identities and experience, I feel the reality is more complicated than he explained. The online and offline communication are different, and the different trend is different between people from different countries. I know my logic is a little convoluted. Hope I expressed clear for you to understand. I agreed what he said: "our lived reality is the result of the constant interpenetration of the online and offline." I could find more personal examples to support his comment. But, I think there are fake personalities online because people imitating each other. When raising to a large number, it will be called following the fashion. Some people lose life styles of themselves. They changed or even faked things while following others and I feel sad about that.

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