On a tangent, relating to the previous post and my experience with adolescents during the undertaking of my teaching degree, I researched an article relating to adolescent identity formation and social media.
The blog article, 'How Does Maintaining an Online Identity Affect Adolescent Identity Formation?' by Lesley Cowie, highlights the notion that adolescents (and some 30 year old women) use '...social media to create a completely new and unrestrained personality that they would never show in real life' (Cowie, 2010). The concerning issue relating to adolescent identity is the belief that adolescents are being caught between a manufactured and 'ideal' identity created with the assistance of social media sites and their own natural identity developed through self-discovery and growth. This leads me to the question, what impact will this 'identity in limbo' phenomenon have on people in the future?
As I have previously posted, I believe that it is all too easy to concoct a different identity or make alterations, with the assistance of social media sites. I cannot help but feel that the identity seeking confusion that faces adolescents is sometimes heightened through the use of social media and that adolescents caught in 'identity limbo' may experience difficulty finding their place in the world as adults.
Cowie, L. (2010). How does maintaining an online identity affect adolescent identity formation? Retrieved January 19, 2011, from http://lcowie.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/social-medias-influence-on-adolescent-identity/
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