{"id":1,"date":"2014-09-12T06:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-09-12T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T07:53:40","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/2014\/09\/12\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Does being well “liked” mean liking ourselves less?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever found yourself personalizing an experience for yourself?<\/strong> Be it in your room, your car, your notebooks, or even your Facebook profile, personalization is an often-used method\u00a0of finding originality within our daily lives. However,\u00a0Eli Pariser’s TED Talk<\/a>\u00a0is startling as he lays judgement on “personalization” done by sites and apps across the internet that\u00a0tailor their experience to\u00a0what they believe a user\u00a0will like more, based on their\u00a0personal\u00a0data. A frightening thought, yet an interesting result of this phenomenon is the Facebook News Feed.<\/a>\u00a0In the News Feed, “stories” are published to a user from other users that are predicted to be more interesting to a user. As well, Facebook notes<\/a> that “the number of comments and likes a post receives and what kind of story it is (ex: photo, video, status update) can also make it more likely to appear in your News Feed.” With all this in mind, well-liked stories populate a person’s newsfeed, prompting a certain type of exigence with positive, affirming posts doing the most successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a world that promotes the possibility of a person self-monitoring through sites such as Facebook, a problematic situation may arise\u00a0when a person’s online persona doesn’t match up with their personality and actions in real life. This situation was comically taken on by the Higton brothers,<\/a> as well as by Zilla van den Born, when she faked a trip to Southeast Asia<\/a> using Facebook updates and by visiting various Asian restaurants in her home town. With such a disconnect between what is posted and what is true on Facebook, when such posts are being “liked” and reinforced as appropriate exigence for the context of Facebook, it contributes to the idea that the user benefits from self-monitoring to the point of creating whole personality, or social media alter-ego, that may perform differently than they would in real life.<\/p>\n

This kind of action may result in “friends” and others within social networks only knowing an image of who\u00a0their friends truly are, with that image being a shadow of what that friend may truly “like” and whom they like being. Are you the same person online? Does it even matter? With this in mind, do these accounts of our lives captured through Facebook “stories” and posts really portray an accurate account of human experience in general?<\/p>\n

Please comment and add your thoughts! I would love to hear your feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever found yourself personalizing an experience for yourself? Be it in your room, your car, your notebooks, or even your Facebook profile, personalization is an often-used method\u00a0of finding originality within our daily lives. However,\u00a0Eli Pariser’s TED Talk\u00a0is startling as he lays judgement on “personalization” done by sites and apps across the internet that\u00a0tailor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}