This document discusses how technology has changed personal relationships and identity. It explores how social media allows people to curate their identities and form online connections rather than true conversations. While technology enables new types of relationships, it may also discourage face-to-face interactions and raise issues with trust if people can pretend to be whoever they want online rather than representing their real-life identity. The document advocates starting real conversations offline instead of just sharing information online.
3. The concept of identity- how we see
ourselves and how others see us- alters
the relationships of dating and friendship
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4. One’s identity comes into existence only
when it is recognized by others. (Erik Erikson)
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5. Today, “we use
technology to
define ourselves
by sharing our
thoughts and
feelings as we’re
having them.”
-Sherry Turkle
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6. Technology may drive us away from face
to face interactions, as it now seems to
serve as the preferred method of
communication.
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7. It is easier to communicate online, people
develop an online confidence, one their
real-life identity doesn't necessarily share
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Texting and email let us present the self
we want to be; we can edit and delete
and retouch until it's just right (Sherry Turkle)
9. But what happened to the rich, messy give
and take of real-life communicating?
(Sherry Turkle)
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10. Social Networks contain
personal information that
facilitate “connection”
but not “conversation”
(Sherry Turkle)
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11. While taking in
this personal
information
may create the
illusion of a
bond, these
leaks of
information are
in fact just an
appearance of
friendship.
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12. People collect
“friends” online-
work contacts, old
classmates,
“content friends”
but they are not
true friends, rather
cyber friends.
(Anthony Wing Kosner)
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14. Online dating offers choices but also risks
and uncertainties, raising concerns about
trust and identity. (Mariann Hardey)
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15. People can
be whoever
they want to
be online
by crafting
their profiles
accordingly.
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Christoph Aigner
16. “One of the
differences
between our self-
image in real life
and online is
more ability to
change our look,
and also mask
our identity.”
- Christine Erickson
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17. Without the social or verbal clues of face
to face communication, e-daters must learn
to decode online profiles. (Mariann Hardey)
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18. The things we choose to share in online
profiles “are inevitably
telling those around us something about
who we are as individuals." - Graham of the University
of Texas, Austin
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19. Social networks often read like a
diary. People can learn certain
facts about any given person which
they wouldn't otherwise know...
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20. “But the uncertainty
can sometimes be the
most exciting part
and if said person-of-
affection manages to
pass a thorough
stalking... Goodbye
butterflies and
excitement, I already
know everything
about you.”
-Allison McCann
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21. This over-share of personal information
can have detrimental consequences.
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22. “Disclosing a high degree of personal
information online...
will likely negatively affect
your romantic relationship,"
-Juwon Lee of the University of KansasPhoto: Olivier Kaderli
23. let’s start the conversation.”
- Sherry Turkle
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“So I say,
look up, look at
one another, and