Online relationships - falling in love online.
Is this love any less real than that between two people who actually meet?
FAKE PROFILES but REAL PEOPLE
Dangers - sex offenders, pedophiles, thieves...
Can Social Networking help people to be 'themselves'?
Does believing in something/someone make it real???
This is the current working title for my Final major Piece. I have a lot of questions I want to address and a lot of research into the self and identity, which means reading up on Psychology. The Psychologist ERIK ERIKSON is one of the people who's work I need to have a look through.
I'm interested in the development of 'the self' from our
Private Selves >> Public Selves >> Professional Selves
And in recent years the ONLINE PERSONA. This is the one that I am most interested in.
Via social networking, chat rooms, forums, online games we can be anything and anyone.
It allows us to fulfill fantasies and I believe in some cases, helps those who suffer from social anxiety and even Autism.