My flipbook for FILM260 Summer 2017.

1. Expectation vs Reality
“The problems posedwhen our virtual profiles don’t match who we
really are.”
By: Daniel Hughes
[1]

2. It’s often said that we
live in a permissive
era, one with infinite
second chances. But
the truth is that for a
great many people,
the permanent
memorybank of the
web increasingly
means there
are no second
chances. (Rosen, 2010)
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3. ONLINE OFFLINE
Increasingly, most of us are living two lives:
[3]
(Callahan, 2015)

4. “Our habits define us. But how true is this for our digital habits? Are
we the same online as offline?” (Chamorro-Premuzic, 2015)
According to Chamorro-Premuzic:
[4]

5. We Make Our Lives Look Better Online
Than They Actually Are.
One problem with our virtual profiles…
[5]

6. When building an online
following, often
“personal branding”
gets a bad rap. Showing
off just the highlights of
our lives, making it
seam like our norm,
gives an egocentric or
narcissistic feel to our
online profiles.
(Matrix, 2017)
[6]

7. We Make Each Other Depressed
“We use these outlets
to present a false
picture of our lives to
the online community;
with flattering selfies
and faux-glamorous
images of holidays,
parties and meals. It’s
as if we’re starring in
a movie of the life
we’d like to lead, not
the humdrum one we
actually inhabit.”
(Street-Porter, 2016)
[7]

8. “It maybe that the same thingpeople find attractive is what
they ultimately find repelling,” - Psychologist Samuel Gosling
We may start to resent both others’ lives and the image of
ourselves that we feel we need to continuously maintain.
[8]
(Konnikova, 2013)

9. Another problem with our virtual profiles…
Our Past Selves Will Forever Be
Online For Everyone To See.
[9]

10. [10]
Mario Costeja González spent five years fighting to have 18 words delisted from
Google search results on his name. He wasin temporaryfinancial trouble 10
years ago, but had been debt free since. Yet the top two results that came up
when he Googled his name related to his previous home-foreclosure.
(Chaparro & Powles, 2015)

11. [11]
When a joke
becomes what
you’re known
for…
JustineSacco tweeted a racist
comment before boarding an 11
hour flight to Cape Town, South
Africa. As Ronson says:
“Bythe time Sacco had touched
down, tens of thousandsof angry
tweets had been sent in response
to her joke.”
Months later Sacco stated:
''Ihad a great career, and I loved
my job, and itwas taken away from
me, and there was a lot of gloryin
that. Everybody else was very
happyabout that.'’ (Ronson,2015)
[11]

12. When dealing with reputation management issues, many people
and businesses are looking for a delete button. Too bad it doesn’t
exist. (Staff, 2015)
What if there is something online about you that isn’t true?
Can you delete it?
[12]

13. A final problem with our virtual profiles…
Our Virtual Profiles Can Have A Negative
Effect On Our Work/SchoolStatus
[13]

14. Because our online profiles
often don’t truly represent
who we are,it can pose
problems when posts or
pictures circulate around
work or get seen by
university admission
offices. More crucially for
those trying to get into
college, 30 percent of the
admissions officers said
they had discovered
information online that had
negatively affected an
applicant's prospects.
(Singer, 2013)
[14]

15. “An unidentified London, Ontario man was fired in 2012 after he wascaught
trolling a memorial website dedicated to Amanda Todd, a 15 year old B.C.
girl who committed suicide after years of being bullied.” (Workopolis, 2015)
“Damian Goddard, an on-air Sportsnet host, lost his job after he
tweeted his support for hockeyagent Todd Reynold’s anti-gay marriage
stance.” (Workopolis, 2015)
Individuals online will often say thingsthey would never
say offline, which can have consequences:
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16. People rarely get a chance
to defend themselves
when it comes to content
related to them online that
they feel does not reflect
their true personality.
Only 27% of employers
give job seekers the
opportunity to discuss the
online content that is
associated with their
name, such as social
media profiles, blog posts
and photos. (Jacobs, 2013)
[16]

17. In Summary…
“When we are online we do not have the
same boundariesand social barriers
and hence we can feel freer to play with
our persona more.” (Donges III, 2014)
[17]

18. In Summary…
"I don't think that you could have any type of accurate or even
semi-accurate personality analysis based on what people are
writing in their Twitter streams. Probably the same case goes
for Facebook statuses as well,"
Said John Grohol, an online mental health expert and founder of
PsychCentral.com.
(Milian, 2010)
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19. In Summary…
When creating and managing our profiles online, we have a tendency
to make our lives look better than they actually are, we forget past
version of ourselves stay online forever, and those mistakes online
can negatively impact our statusat school and at work.
It is important that individuals take the time to make sure that their
online profile truly represents who they are what theystand for,
because without careful mediation these problems can easily occur.
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20. Image References
[1] https://pixabay.com/en/office-flowers-apple-computer-605503/
[2] https://pixabay.com/en/binary-code-privacy-policy-woman-1327493/
[3] https://pixabay.com/en/head-brain-thoughts-human-body-1965675/
[4] https://pixabay.com/en/laptop-human-hands-keyboard-typing-820274/
[5] https://pixabay.com/en/social-media-manager-online-1958769/
[6] https://pixabay.com/en/twitter-facebook-together-292994/
[7] https://pixabay.com/en/worried-girl-woman-waiting-sitting-413690/
[8] https://pixabay.com/en/hanoi-vietnam-people-talking-599204/
[9] https://pixabay.com/en/cyber-security-online-computer-2296269/
[10] https://pixabay.com/en/mac-freelancer-macintosh-macbook-459196/
[11] https://pixabay.com/en/cell-phone-phone-mobile-phone-1245663/
[12] https://pixabay.com/en/pencil-eraser-notepad-write-paper-1037609/
[13] https://pixabay.com/en/office-freelancer-computer-business-620823/
[14] https://pixabay.com/en/university-education-school-2119707/
[15] https://pixabay.com/en/stress-programmer-etnwickler-ibm-1331259/
[16] https://pixabay.com/en/handshake-hand-give-business-man-2056023/
[17] https://pixabay.com/en/cup-of-coffee-laptop-office-macbook-1280537/
[18] https://pixabay.com/en/break-business-cafe-coffee-shop-2326426/
[19] https://pixabay.com/en/notebook-macbook-computer-business-1814343/
All imageshavea Creative CommonsCC0 license and werefree touse for this
assignment.

21. Works Cited
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• **Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015, September 24). How different are youronlineand offline personalities? RetrievedJune 1, 2017,from The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/media-
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• **Jacobs, D. L. (2013, May17). How An OnlineReputationCan Hurt Your Job Hunt.Retrieved June 1, 2017, fromForbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/05/17/how-an-
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