How much does social media define a person for you?

Rating a person's success on how many "likes" they get is just silly. The world of Facebook and the like is so insignificant in real life, and getting "likes" counts for nothing in the real world.

Sometimes it shows certain parts of them that you wouldn't see otherwise, and you get see how some people want to present themselves, or how they want to be viewed. Some people make an effort to come across as perfect, especially with the massively edited profile pictures and stuff like that. I don't really get it. People will know what they look like in real life, who are they trying to kid? What's the point? Does it make them feel better, even though it isn't *really* real?

Sometimes people are popular in real life, and this is reflected by their popularity online. Sometimes people use it the right way, and the way they act is just the same as real life (although obviously a *much* more limited version). Although, to know that, you obviously have to know them in real life, so that's obviously where most of the "defining" happens.

So no, I wouldn't use it to define them, although you can learn some stuff about them from it. I think people in real life are just *so* much more likable than they are on social media websites, because they're actually real and flawed and human! I don't like "perfect" people, it's fake and creepy and bleurgh! If I defined people on how they behave on sites like Facebook, I genuinely think I'd end up hating a lot of people. And social media really doesn't matter that much to me because it's just so trivial, so it doesn't hold much weight. Whereas having a (real) conversation with someone is just a much better indicator of what they're like, and people are generally just really great.

I don't post statuses on Facebook and I don't use many other social networks like Instagram or anything, so in that sense it doesn't "define" me at all. Sometimes I tweet at people I don't know personally, and I like getting a response from them but only because I like talking to people, not because it gives me some greater sense of fulfillment or reassurance.

I'm fairly emotionally invested in IIN, so as far as IIN is a social network I suppose it defines my self-perception a bit. Although mostly I don't mind if people don't like me much, but I'm quite lucky in that not many people dislike me. If the whole world was against me I imagine that would be quite a drag :L

A lot of people get really, actually addicted to social networks though. It's really sad. For my psychology course I read a study about mobile phone addiction, and how it could be very similar to something like gambling addiction. I can see how that could be very damaging if someone starts relying on social networks for emotional support.

I certainly wouldn't use it to define myself, and I think using it to judge other people would be equally silly.

Ok I have a confession to make. I don't like black people.

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if you're not on social media, you don't exist. it's become like choosing to live in the outskirts of the web

Zero, I don't use social media.