Character Identity

A couple of week as a group we were set a task of creating a fake identity on social networking sites. Before going off and doing this we spoke about what we actually as a individual thought identity of a profile even was. When asked this question for the first time it makes you think a lot as I have never thought about before now. Questions began to be asked and it was noticed we all had different opinions on it even though all of these were different they were all connected to identity.

• Online presentation for example Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo.
• How we present ourselves for example Fun, Outgoing, Shy or Different

After we spoke about all the different way in which identity can be present we moved on to the assignment which we then spoke about different ways in which we could link this character up to social networking websites.

• Facebook – Unfortunately got suspended
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/AngelicaBrooke1
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAngelicaBrooke  
• Blogger - http://angelicabrookeslife.blogspot.co.uk/

Above is our characters different account. After a few days we began to really get into character with this assignment and felt ourselves checking them every day. It was a unusual assignment but fun. We did find that we got a lot of responses from men all different ages sending rude messages that I won’t post on here as I don’t think there appropriate but they were commenting on our images assets a lot. The images we used as profile pictures was a friend of ours we asked could we take pictures of too use for this assignment, luckily she was glad to help! But still doesn’t know about the messages we received about her hehe. Im not sure if I like the experience because when I think about it I wouldnt like to be on the other side of the joke in a way.

This assignment gave us a chance to see what is like to be someone else and to basically put on a mask and create any type of person you want to be. It’s interesting that there are people actually out there today that do this every day, cover up who they really our by using these fake profiles. In a way really is sad because they feel they can’t be like this themselves, maybe because there scared of what people say? Or are they using these things for other things, I dread to think! Overall I think the experience was really good but I dont think i will be carrying on with Angelica Brookes profiles or making any new ones any time soon.