class topic: ONLINE IDENTITY

Almost everyone in this generation has had atleast one profile on a social networking site, whether it's twitter, facebook, instagram, or myspace. Many people create false identites for many reasons. Some use it to be some one they are not due to low confidence in who they really are. I used to be addicted to Facebook about 6 months ago. One of the reasons I deactivated my account was due to these false identites. Many people that I knew in real life where complete strangers online. They would post pictures that had been digitally altered to look 10X better than their real life appearance. Also people would change their personality by talking in slang or only posting things they felt would be appealing to their audience. It was fake to me. Another thing that bothered me was people creating fake accounts using fake pictures to spy on people that would not accept their friend request. I had quite a few freind requests a week and alot of the time I was hesitant to add people because I had suspisions that they were impersonating someone else. Why would I want to share personal information with someone who could possibly be someone looking for dirt on me? Or possibly a stranger. These social networking sites could be potentionaly dangerous. Anybody could be a stranger and espicially with the new features these sites have you can pretty much be tracked down.