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Questions: Choose a partner for this project. In the first part, analyze your social media account, preferably Facebook/ Instagram. Look at your profile, posts, profile picture, pictures, comments, thoughts, views, reviews, interactions, emoticons, videos, and other content you posted. While looking at your account activity, think about the following questions and try to find answers for at least six (6) questions:
1. What thoughts come to your mind when you examine your 'Facebook/Instagram Self'?
2. How would you define your Facebook/Instagram Self?
3. What kind of things do you post and why? Do you look for likes and comments?
4. Why do you engage in Facebook/Instagram interactions?
5. How is your 'self' through social media activity?
6. How long have you been using this account, and how has the image of your online 'self' changed since the beginning?
7. What happens to your sense of self when some of your Facebook/Instagram friends appreciate you, and when they express a difference of opinion or maybe reject your thoughts?
8. Is your real-life sense different from your online self, and in what ways? In other words, how your online self reflect who you really are?
9. Some of us have public accounts, meaning that anybody can see what we share in our accounts. However, most of us have private accounts, meaning we include some people (friends and families, etc.) and exclude others. Considering Mead's approach to the 'social act,' or Blumer's idea of 'interaction based on others' interpretation,' or Cooley's idea of the 'looking-glass self,' analyze how you decide to include some and exclude others.
10. How would you analyze your account considering Goffman's dramaturgy?
In your response to the above-mentioned questions, try to connect them with two of the following sociologists: