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