Personality

Someone’s personality, is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character. In a digital space, many people use sharing to show a glimpse into what their personality is like. An online personality is sometimes called an avatar. Some social media and other online programs allow the user to create a digital person that they can customize to show off their personality even more. Their personality is unique to their identity, so most online users will express this in different ways. A profile on a social media page is another great place to let the user’s personality shine through. Most profiles have a section of interests or likes the person has. This can let other users know things such as their favorite music, movies and places to visit.

Online Persona
Since social media profiles are created by the user, it is up to them to fill it with pictures, interests, and other media that represents them. This creates the users online persona that anyone can access at anytime. This persona gives other users insight into what you are like as a person. But what happens if a user doesn't tell the truth?

Since the user creates there online persona, they can make it whatever they want. Users might do this to seem more interesting to other people or they might do it to make themselves feel more comfortable online. This type of behaviour could be unhealthy for the user. They can create an account and lie about their name, age, or gender, but no matter how much they change themselves online, it is not changing them as a person. For example instead of going to the gym and getting in shape, a user might just photoshop some pictures of themselves so that they look better. I a world where some people do most of their interaction online, what's the point of trying to improve yourself in the real world.

Identity
A user can make up a fake online persona, but there identity is who they are in the real world. Most social networking sites make it easy for users to express their identity. This is very important when trying to show what your personality is like online, since your personality is one of the only ways users can show their identity online. This is one of the reasons why social interaction is so popular online.

Referances

 * 1) Green, R. Kay. “The Social Media Effect: Are You Really Who You Portray Online?” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Oct. 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com/r-kay-green/the-social-media-effect-a_b_3721029.html.
 * 2) “Is Online Persona Important.” Persona-Co, 31 Jan. 2018, www.persona-co.com/online-persona-important/.
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