The virtual world is a space that invites us to build one or more characters to interact with others. Showing and demonstrating on social media is the bread of every day.
These spaces, in particular, are like a showcase that each decorates according to their taste to play a role: that of the person who wants to be.
- The opposite of the virtual is not the real thing.
- But the present.
- There is no physical presence of people in Internet.
- De form or another.
- They are all free to hide or show only what they want.
This also happens in the face-to-face, but can only reach up on the Internet, almost everything can be displayed and demonstrated on social networks.
This, which at first could be imaginative and playful, easily becomes a problematic problem, in fact, by proving that we are a certain type of person, we also build links on this basis and end up confusing what happens on the Internet with our true identity. .
“In the past you were what you had; Now, are you what you share?. ?Godfried Bogaard-
Virtuality has a feature that facilitates a certain forgery of identity, you can tell anything to anyone who is there, in real time.
However, this person has no way of proving whether what we’re saying is true, so do the posts we make.
It is one thing to show and demonstrate on social media and another to do so in the real world, virtual reality does not give access to the context in which a person is located nor does it allow us to effectively compare what someone says with ours. perception of reality.
Thus, all the conditions are met for the game of identity to evolve into a highly flexible structure, we do not realize, but we end up portraying a character that represents our ideal self, we end up nourishing and enriching this representation that we make. Created.
The identity we build on social media and social media has the traits we value as “the best”. We receive feedback with every post we make.
Some have more likes and others go unnoticed, this generates in us an apprenticeship that makes us identify what is most approved and admired by our network of ‘friendships’.
Showing and protesting on social media is also a way of competing with others in the ‘social market’, those who are immersed in this virtual world also feel that they can judge others, sometimes showing a severity that scares them. Artificial and fragile bonds are forged.
The approval and admiration professed on social media is not the ones that arise from genuine recognition. Do they have more to do with the sum of likes?And the number of followers each.
That’s how a lot of influencers are born. They are the best rated in this personality market and all are easily replaceable or supportable.
Social networks are created by and to generate greed, in themselves they are neither bad nor good, however, they are fertile ground to increase the effect of group pressure and for ‘trends’ that are not always constructive or rewarding for individuals and societies.
Social networks are also spaces conducive to the trivialization of the relevant, we see that they separate more than unies, encourage micro-dictatorships of opinion, and for those who do not trust themselves or have not formed independent criteria in the face of reality. , lead to the construction of deceptive or even fraudulent identities.
Likewise, they exert a great power of conditioning, showing and protesting on social networks can become an action in which more expectations and feelings are compromised.
Going unnoticed after publishing a post frustrates some people and, however contradictory it may seem, it’s also something that isolates them: oneself and the real environment.
Opinion and sharing in these spaces are just one of the many ways we can connect with others, if we allow ourselves to be absorbed by social networks, we end up disfiguring who we are and missing the precious opportunity to have deeper experiences of friendship, camaraderie. and expression of our being.