As a sometimes user of Facebook as an interface channel between friends of exchanging information and ideas it has become apparent that the Facebook social media wrinkle between people is displaying personal psychological attributes not as noticeable in previous day to day person to person interactions.
Your Facebook Self
Reality and unreality as we self-style on social media
This blog curates the voices of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Shelley Galasso Bonanno, M.A., a practicing psychotherapist in the metropolitan Detroit area writes this post:
While the old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words" gained favor nearly a century before the advent of social media sites, the saying was never more applicable than it is today, in the notion that our complex selves can somehow be miraculously conveyed with just a single still image posted to social media sites, such as Facebook. Never mind that the fantasied perfect picture is impossible to achieve. Postings to social media sites generally portray who we would like others (and ourselves) to perceive us to be. Because so often many of our “friends” rarely if ever come face to face with us or even converse with us verbally, we can craft an idealized image and present it to the world as complete reality. We post ourselves, smiling and engaged, using only the best, most flattering photographs, crafting an idealized image and presenting it to the world as a complete reality.
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