Who are you online?

In response to Danah Boyd's book " It's Complicated " she mentions the culture online during the 1990's when many took to the Internet to find themselves or create a new persona. They went online to talk to new people and find a community and essentially be who they want to be. It was all fantasy and escape. Even though there are still plenty of online communities and fantasy play online when I think of social media I think of this "new persona" in a different way. If you ever get on twitter, instagram, pintrest, or tumblr you will see posts about "relationship goals" "bae goals" "instagram goals" or just "goals" posts. I'm even at fault in this situation I say these things all the time and yes I would love to have a so called  "Instagram goals" Instagram profile. When we post anything on social media we are posting for a couple different reasons. One being that we like how we look in this picture, two we want everyone to see what we are doing or what we are accomplishing, or three we wanna show someone off, whether that be your family, you boyfriend or girlfriend, or even show off that bomb donut you had for breakfast. We post because we wanna show off and make our lives seem better than they actually are. It's like when you take a picture and then post the picture on Facebook or Instagram and there is always that one girl that is like delete that picture or un tag me! Why does she care? God forbid someone saw her looking a little imperfect. We want our social media audience to be jealous and want what we have. Whether that be looks, or that new pair of shoes we got, or be jealous of the "perfect" relationships we have with our friends and family. It is not necessarily bad, we have all done it including myself. However there is a connection to the 1990's when we wanted to create new personas and escape the world, for the fantasy that now on the internet we want to make new personas but new personas of who we are. The "perfect" us.

Tell me what you think! Would agree most people post for these reasons? Let me know in the comments below!