Dear Mendelson and Papacharissi,
Since I am a college student, I can relate to much what you
are discussing in this article. Going
back to MySpace days, we all found ourselves taking pictures just for the sake
of putting them up and wanting to get the most likes and comments. We are all in way looking for validating from
our peers for acceptance through our pictures.
We all want to be told how pretty, handsome, or how nice our outfits
are, all through these social media sites.
How can we forget out the infamous mirror picture? People spent a lot of
time in their bathrooms trying to get the perfect shot. Though it seems ridiculous looking back, at
of us still do it today. Now that we are
in college, you see albums on a daily basis of parties, chill nights, and
spring break vacations on how much “fun” they are having when little do we know
if these pictures are as realistic as they seem.
Everything on the Internet as you
mentioned is a reflection of the things we want to put up. Unless we are tagged in some unflattering
pictures, every move is calculated because of the image we want people to
see. It was interesting that you wrote
about the different kinds of pictures that college students take and the
difference between female and males pictures.
What you mentioned was true being that I have seen thousands of pictures
on Facebook from my hundreds of friends.
At the end of the day, a lot of us are being nosey and want to see what
our old high school classmates are up to, and how much “fun” they are having at
school since pictures really do say a lot.
Kelly Myers
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