- {1.5a2} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network, requiring us to perform the same identity across multiple contexts (aka {1.5a2a} context collapse).
- In other words, all relationships are treated the same, which means we canāt perform differently to different audiences.
- We donāt do this in real life. Itās easy for my family persona to be different from my persona with friends which is different from my work persona.
- The flattening of our network takes away the agency we have to present ourselves differently to different groups of people.
- You could, for example, decline someoneās friend request on Facebook, but now that person knows what you think of them ā that you do not want them to have access to this part of your life.
- Thereās nothing wrong with that, but we typically donāt have to publicize our social judgements.
- 2024-09-07 ā However, {1.5a1d} the internet lets you try on new identities