Social networking twitter
- 2. TRENDS Twitter features a side bar that shows what the most popular topics or tweet being shared by everyone. This is possible by people using The # symbol to connect posts to one topic. Antony Giddens’ theory states that people are self reflexive in making decisions on who they want to be, and that identity is changeable. In this instant, The trending topics give you a decision on what you want to see what is popular, possibly changed your overall identity. It is also proof that people’s identities are changeable and will search what is most popular in order to see what is considered popular, potentially changing one’s self to fit it.
- 3. NEWS FEED Twitter is known for it being a source of immediate information. This means that most news is first put on Twitter before anywhere else.
- 4. CELEBRITY UPDATES People who you actively choose to follow such as famous people will share their life and their work on Twitter regular. This makes it easy to find what their next big thing is.
- 5. SHARING Twitter is a good format for sharing things of interest. This allows for a great deal of self expression without that many people being negative towards it because twitter is for sharing things. These posts are an example of Erving Goffman’s theory which suggests that everyone puts on an act or personality around other people which differs from a person’s authentic personality. Here, I have retweeted posts that are linked to film and television, which creates this front stage behaviour to the public. This front stage behaviour suggests that I am into fil/TV, as illustrated by the reference to ‘Game of thrones’ and ‘Anchorman 2’. This is done to create a specific personality that is constructed from the connotations of these aspects. It is also an example of Giddens’ theory, as I am seeing my self as a project to build a biological coherent narrative around. This is to suggest to the public that I have a particular interest in film and TV.