GROUP 5 - SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL IDENTITY

In Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, it talked about the six degrees of separation that exist in social media sites. The six degrees of separation is this notion that every two people on the web are connected by hops.

Our group focused on few points:

1. How many people each user are connected to in their respective social media interest and how many of these connections they actually know personally.

 

2. How social identities change in order to fit the scope of a social media.






3. How privacy no longer exist when something is published.




4. How we build an archive that will live on after we die. (which is why we need to be more aware of what we choose to share to the media world.)

5. Because we share so much on the Internet, the cases of social identity theft is almost inevitable.
Catfish, a popular tv show on MTV is shows examples of social identity theft such as someone impersonating a celebrity Bow-Wow.