Selfies and Self-Representation

All of these quotes are from teens or young adults who were interviewed about their experiences with social networking and the Internet. Read through them and sort them according to whether you agree or disagree.

Some kids try to make them look like everyone’s their friend or that their boyfriend’s the greatest, but in reality, they’re not.

There’s some people that have different personalities online. They create accounts and they’re just on YouTube and they become this character which is not them, and it gives them the chance to become somebody else, someone they wish they could be.

I don’t really get embarrassed by putting like pictures of me making a funny face or something but I would never put that as my profile picture.

If a guy has his shirt off in his photo, people will say he’s good looking — but if he’s fat, he’ll be called fat.

Girls kind of feel pressured to be on lots of social media sites and post pictures of themselves, and then if they’re getting a lot of guy followers they’ll feel pressures to like cater their pictures or the style of their picture more to guy followers.

Guys can get away with bloody murder compared to girls in social networking because no one expects a guy to care. But they expect a girl to care, so if a girl doesn’t care, they just assume that she’s doing it purposely.

You look at the picture and you’re like “Why won’t people like this?” and then you look at it and you think “Yeah, my hair doesn’t look that good,” or “My clothes don’t look that good,” or “Wow, that outfit actually wasn’t that nice.”

Sometimes it’s really embarrassing, if you’re making, like, the stupidest face in a picture and your friend posts it, that’s gonna start some drama if they won’t take it down or people have already seen it.

It makes me more comfortable when my profile picture is something that looks flawless and ‘pretty’ even though I know it’s fake.

We know pictures in ads are Photoshopped, but we still want to look like that.