You Are What You Post On Social Media: Facebook as a Case Study

A lot of folks have stereotyped Facebook as a kind of theatrical platform where all sort of fakeness displayed by persons is the order of the day. How well can this hold water? We shall surely know.

It is obvious that the posts we put-up here on Facebook to a large extent, is in a way, a reflection of our true personalities. Did you know that our passion, our fight, our compassion, our indifference, our intelligence, our sense of humor, our pedantry, and our values as a person here, goes a long way in garnishing the mental threshold of others toward us!

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Did you know, that what you post here, can earn you a job place in any firm? Your post can get you recommendations for great and mighty things on the basis of your content here! The question now is, who do you tell your Social Media audience you are through the content of your post?

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It is in like manner, Samuel has got this to tell you:

Some of us post nothing but pictures, so we are hard to read. Some of us mostly share, so it can be gleaned that we share the sentiments expressed in the posts we share.

Some of us post nothing; we do not leave our audience with any materials to form a profile.

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Whatever we post is entirely our choice, and we cannot be begrudged that right. However you cannot begrudge others the right to form perceptions of you from the things you post and even proceed to relate with you on the basis of such perceptions.

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You cannot be making endless posts on sex and expect people to think you are celibate. You cannot be asking for head in 10 posts running, and expect people to look at you beyond your sexuality or think you're capable of thinking of anything else.

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Am I picking on sex? Yes, it is rather the new fad here. The go-to toy to talk about, perhaps to be perceived as bold and unrestrained and sophisticated.

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You're a lawyer but there is nothing else on your wall but heading, 69, E.E. Cummings. Where is your legal mind? Is this not a huge audience to sell it?

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Of course it is a good thing to live free, never giving a fuck (excuse the paradox), and letting all that exuberance that comes with being young and having a virtual shield dictate what we do here. However sometimes there are consequences. Can you live with them, especially in the not-so-short term? When the likes and comments and attention peter out, what is left in it for you?

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Some of you are going to get recommendations for bigger things on the basis of your content here. Many of us are going to be boxed into "smart", "stupid", "asslicker", etc from the footprints we leave here.

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It doesn't matter what you are in real life, and because perceptions matter, you're what you post here.

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Might be someday a prospective employer is checking you out on Facebook to help them reach a decision on your application; your endless posts on sex styles and nothing else might help them decide you're not that daring lawyer that they need."