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How social media might affects our identity - Coggle Diagram
How social media might affects our identity
Overview
Social Media
Popular services
YouTube
Discord
Twitter
Facebook
Reddit
LINE
TikTok
Instagram
Is a computer-based technology that helps people share ideas, thoughts, and information through virtual networks and online communities.
Is used by 4,5 billions people around the world, used equally by both genders, most popular within 6-40 years old age group
Identity
Real life identity
The different characteristics of someone that make them identifiable, different from others, presented in the physical world
Online identity
Online identity is the sum of one’s characteristics, interactions and partial identities online
Online persona is a partial identity created by you to represent yourself in certain situations
Real life identity is different from online identity because
It is far easier to choose what characteristics to present online, compared to in real life
Online identity is more anonymous than real life identity
The ways to express yourself online are a lot more limited than in real life
Effect
Negative
Makes us more aggressive
Makes us more close-minded
Makes it harder to part with our identity if it's attached to our online identity (from most things online are permanent)
Decreases our self-esteem
Makes us more apathetic and lacking in sympathy
Makes us more narcissist
Makes us more impulsive
All of these effects may be showcased clearly in our real personality, or it could be more subtle
Positive
Makes it easier for us to look at our past and reflect upon ourselves (from "most things online are permanently archived)
Makes us more agreeable
Makes us more sociable and open
Makes us more open-minded
Makes us more cautious
Improves our self-esteem
All of these effects may be showcased clearly in our real personality, or it could be more subtle
Cause
Using social media a lot
Seeing other people's successes on social media
Spends a lot of time socializing on social media
Interacting with bad influences on social media
Certain traits being nurtured online
Negative traits
Regression, or adopting childish manners
Aggressiveness, or hostile and violent
Narcissism, or excessive self love
Impulsiveness, or doing things without careful thoughts
Grandiosity, or pompous superiority
Positive traits
Self-confidence
Agreeableness
Extroversion
Lack of restraint when online
Being able to act however you like without any major consequence
Lacking in empathy
Communications not happening at the same time
Most things online are permanently archived
Most things posted don't go away automatically
It is easy to spread and archive things on the internet