Self/Identity & Facebook
Facebook is a social network that allow for families to connect with each other over long distances, either though messaging or tagging. With families connecting over Facebook, this allows for members of the family to post whatever they wish, which may include photos or shared items an influence in to how family members are perceiving other family members. Online family members have the power to encourage certain behaviours that their family members are posting onto their timeline as they have access to anything their family posts. Sometimes the diasporic community can exert pressure on the younger generation to maintain traditions and connections to homeland. (Kuttainen, 2015)
When online people tend to navigate their identity and personality towards those who are seen as popular on Social networking. With this online identity users are free to express what they think or how things should be happening within their surroundings. With online users sharing a particular liking to something someone has posted or shared on Facebook, this can be seen as some type of online migration. Online migrations are becoming the new way of finding common interests among social network users. During migration an identity develops and is based on the feeling of sharing a common origin, be it real or supposed. (Ma Mang, 2005)
Social networking is now an opportunity for families to keep an eye on what their family members are posting or sharing on Facebook. Older generations are also sharing or posting things that they want their family members to pick up and hopefully pass it onto any other family members on Facebook. With this new age of online migration it is going to be easier for families to communicate with each other over the internet to influence the other family members way of their online identity and how it will influence the posting and sharing side of their Facebook page.
Kuttainen, V. (2015). People Networks.
Ma Mang, E. (2005). Comparative European research in migration, diversity and identities. Spain: University of Deusto Bilbao, p.35.
Hello Brooke, you have mentioned some valid points in relation to online sharing with family and friends from a displaced individual or group from their community. However I do believe that you may have misinterpreted the concept that we were given this week, diaspora. You have gone into great detail on the concept of sharing and networking among groups, but you have not discussed in detail the true definition of diaspora or used any examples of a current or past diaspora. For future reference maybe you could look more into the lecture slides and also have browse at the subject outline and tutorial guides so that you know what to focus on in detail for your next blog. Also I noticed that you forgot to include a photo, as this is a part of the set criteria that we have to meet each week for the blog.
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