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- Given enough time in a shower, you develop shower thoughts -- but
- mostly you get pruney fingers. Given the current social distancing
- measures, everyone has taken to the internet to get their work done. I
- am now working, taking classes, and hanging out with friends on the
- internet on a daily basis. The omnipresent prevalence of online
- platforms has gotten me thinking a lot about how we express our
- identity on the internet. Specifically, profile pictures have seized
- my attention lately.
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- On the internet, you can express yourself in ways that are infeasible
- in real life. The very notion of a profile with a bio and a brave
- little emblem representing you at your best is a new paradigm. This
- gives immense control over your first impressions on the internet--
- something that we desperately wish for in the real world.
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- Like many self-reflective individuals in my generation, I probably
- spend way too much time thinking about my profile. I don't believe
- that this is necessarily a bad thing, putting some creative effort
- into your profile picture can raise your self-esteem -- or something
- like that. People should take pride in their profile images because it
- is a stamp of your identity: an image or ideal of you at your best.
- Your profile is a place to carve out your home on the internet.
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- Not everybody puts effort or thought into profiles, that is perfectly
- fine. However, as people start to do more things online, we will see
- more in-depth and creative profiles. As one of my friends put
- it a long time ago: "Upload a damn photo! You don't want to be another
- faceless Jeff on the internet".
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