Individuals Self-fashioning Identity Via Digital Platforms

Self-Fashioned Identity
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Introduction
Ever since the social media was invented, it has become a popular stage for self-promotion, self-expression, and communication. Instead of facilitating online identity formation, the social media have become sites for struggle among the users, employers, and those who own these platforms to control online identity.[Vitelli, Romeo. Media Exposure and the "Perfect" Body. Psychology Today. Web. < /blog/media-spotlight/201311/media-exposure-and-the-perfect-body>]
This paper explores an analysis of how the individuals is self-fashioning their identity via this digital platforms.
Self-Identity and Instagram
Maintaining an individual’s presence in the social media could be quite entertaining, but it may end up being stressful. One of the social media sites that have been used by many people to present a deceiving self-identity is instagram. Identities in the social media are quite complicated due to the diverse users for these platforms. Instagram has got features that make it possible for one to edit her pictures in person or through hired professionals to do the editing. For instance, there is this young instagram star has found herself to be in the point of attention with her 800,000 followers. She surprised these followers by denouncing the idea of social media, and by extension she re-captioned her past photos so as to point out the false image and also artificiality of the media present in those pictures. In other words, mostly young people have used instagram to presents their self-identity.
Ways by Which Blog/Instagram Account Function as a Space for Identity Construction and as a Fashion Autobiography
The differences in gender and also some similarities are apparent in the social media site preferences and at the rate by which people use them. An individual’s identity can be understood to refer to the way they do construct and present themselves in relation as well as interactions wit...