There are three ways that influence adolescent identity development, which are identity exploration, self-presentation, and social interactions. The identity exploration can be explained in the way of a certain problem that is only online-compatible, and for the people who want to address it must create a new identity so that they can maximize their working efficiency, therefore, a new method of communication and interaction created since they started to address the problem online. For self-presentation, this is the stage that adolescents must cope with various online subjects, in order to establish self-presentations that online contexts bring about so that they can foresee the audiences of their online behavior. In the study of social interactions, the opportunities are imperative to create a place of their own — a place that might involve less adult supervision than any other context where adolescents meet and interact (page 148). In my perspective as an adult as well, these factors truly exist in my online socialization, based on how social media connect people’s world, the way it expressed in the early internet world that texts may look emotionless, where the pictures presenting and the memo, etc. were invented to convey our emotion while texting. What the identity exploration, self-presentation, and social interactions bring to me are accurate in my online socialization.
According to the materials I read for this week, I highly resonated with the article of Rise of the utopia through online social networks, in order to answer the question of how social networks impact my learning through digital identity formation, I can tell that people in today’s cyber-world are love to hold justice, especially some racism comments from a certain celebrity or internet influencer, in order to create a utopia world, most of us are defending with sharing information all over the social media that assembling more and more people to know what is happening, then lead all of them to criticize those racism supporters.
What I learned from the video is that the internet used to be a place without supervision, and people who spread the information on it could bring tremendous harm to someone unintentionally and lasting, from the reading material, I assume the opportunities for identity exploration is a good article to pick up for internet education, teaching the new generation how to use the internet for entertainment appropriately is the only way that human connection can safely grow and share their identities and the identities of others.
I would like to share my experience of how I was bullied and attacked by trolls and racial haters in Instagram. Being an Asian identity international student is one of the most vulnerable targets in the United States, so I was attacked by a comment on Donald Trump new-published policy to suspect all of the Chinese students may be spies from Chinese Communist, so all Asian students or Chinese students were not allowed to deport American without random check, which includes private computer, personal social media and all digital storage devices, and I was commented how the president was doing wrong with us, and some of his supports replied with strong racial hostility that regards with assaulting my family. I was really furious about this, but there were other people who stand aside me against those haters, I was so appreciated their strike back to protect my claim.
