DW2b

After serching and searching, i finally chose to use myspace as one of my sites to analys. In Knadler's E-racing, he states "online communication is valued because it allows for the hidden or repressed self out (Knadler 239). He also states "the user's sense of self is freed from social and discursive constraints"(Knadler 239). In this quote he is saying that with online communication comes the luxury of being who you want to be but not always exactly who you are. A person online can be whomever they decide to be at that moment. Just the same as a 30yr. old male posing to be a 14yr. old girl. Although this aspect of the internet isnt right, it happens.

Myspace.com is a networking site that allows people to converse through text with other people they are and aren't familiar with. A person with a Myspace account can chose to put millions of pictures of themselves and their frinds on their page and they also have the choice to put none at all up. A person with an account can chose to put their real name one their page or they can make an alias which allows them at that moment to be themselves or someone else. Most people put things that they are afraid to say in a face to face situation on a web page.

As I began to look around on Myspace and browse thrugh my friends list but i then decided to use my own Myspace page to prove this point. My alias is "Beautiful" and most people know that this isn't the name I was given at birth but because I am allowed to make a name I do so. When reading my page, youll see that I have an introduction that goes as follows:

"Hey, my name is Chelly Baby. I think im cool peoples jus misunderstood sometimes. I've been very happy lately but I do get irritated very easily. I take things personal sometimes and I laugh at the dumbest stuff like 2 hours later. Im one of those girls that haves fun in a room all by herself but I love to be around the ppl I love. I'm not the easiest person to get along with but those that matter stick around and those that dnt...give up easily but IDC. I LOVE MY FRIENDS TO DEATH... "

You can see that I allow myself to be who I really am. I explain what type of person I feel I am whether it's good or bad. I don't hold back because the paople that know me already know these quailites of me and the others that don't have a heads up on what they could possibly be getting them selves into by becoming my friend. Although I dont use total AAVE it is being appropriated in this text. My grammar is horrible and could be better. I dont use forms of "be" the wrong way but the use of "cool peoples" is not standard english. Going back to Knadler's article, myspace has allowed me to be who I really am or even be a character at times. My picture sometimes confuse paople. Because I've dyed my hair blonde and my skin color is a very light color, i sometime get asked "are you white?" or "what you mixed wit?" I"'m not fully white, I'm also black but because in the picture my hair is straightened instead of the natural curls I sometimes where this confuses people. Pictures also sometimes allow you to be just out of the norm. You don't even have to have a picture up on networking site like Myspace or Facebook but becasue I wanted one up Iput one on their.

The internet allows people to be themselve or whomever they would like to be. It gives people the feeling of freedom, the feeling of being able to say what you want without being FORCED to face criticism. I say forced because there is a such thing as a "friend request" on these sites. This gives a person the choice to block their page and let people be shut out of their world/space.