Which Filter should I use today?
Snapchat
enables its users to have face filters on all of their images. Most of the filters that can be used can
change the look of your skin, so you can look like you have no blemishes or
marks on your face. Most people who have
Snapchat love using these filters, because they are a lot of fun and they can
make someone laugh. A lot of people
pretend to be completely different people online to what they are in real life,
they quite often give a false sense of identity. It may give people a false identity, but it
can also help people to feel better about themselves, because the person they
are on social media is a ‘better version’ of themselves.
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Identity
can have many different forms, but there are two main forms to be discussed, self-identity,
and community identity. For most people
who are a part of a social media platform, who they are online, and who they
are in real-life is completely different.
I am not one of these people, I have a simple approach, accept me as I
am or leave, I don’t care either way. A
lot of people in modern society have an urge to be liked by everyone, so they
will do everything in their power to edit out most of their flaws. Community identity is different again, this
happens when it is not just an individual is involved. In an interesting reading by McNeill, (2012),
Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, said “Having two identities for
yourself is an example of lack of integrity”.
Having two different identities to most people is considered normal. If a person is themselves on social media, it
is frowned upon, and questioned.
People
sometimes feel more comfortable on social media. This may be because they are uncomfortable
about something in their real life, so they ‘put on a mask’, so to speak, to
hide what is really going on. Filters are
a way to successfully hide the way you truly look. People may as well wear make-up everywhere
they go. Using a filter is just the
cheaper version of wearing make-up that also doesn’t take hours of scrubbing to
get it off.
Post-humanism
is an idea that came about in the late 20th century. The idea challenges the boundaries between
the mechanical and technological, and the major metaphor for this is the idea
of a cyborg. (Kuttainen, V., 2017). Post-humanism is becoming a bigger problem in
modern society, because there are fewer and fewer people who have a smart
phone. Furthermore, most people who have
a smartphone traditionally can’t go for more than a day without it. So, in most cases people consider them an
attachment, thus we as a race can be considered cyborgs. Amber Case, explores the idea of cyborgs
further. Cyborgs are all around,
everyone is a cyborg in one way or another.
I’ll admit, I can’t go one hour without checking my phone.
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