As a female with a long since closed Myspace account I can agree with the author of this article. I just find the whole thing silly to be quite honest. While I enjoyed the interaction and keeping in touch with friends that I did not get to often see, it seemed as if the premise of many users was to try to prove something. With their outlandish profile pictures and about me sections that seemed to just be there to how happy and how pretty they are. Browsing other profiles gave me hours of amusement, and maybe a few "are you kidding me right now" moments.
If you consider men and women in general outside of the cyber world, men are still generally less apt to reveal personal information about relationships and such. Why would that be any different on the web? It seems like females, for the most part, lose a lot of individuality and try to make it into some type of competition in most social networking sites.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I totally agree with you there are many people out there who have attention-seeking profiles. I have seen many as i browse through some profiles my friends show me. I think if people are gona create a MySpace they should do it to keep in touch with friends and family. Then again everyone is free to do what they please. Good job with you response :)
I also agree with you that these websites become competitions for who has the best pictures up, etc. However, it does bother me a bit that the so called "traditional gender roles" translate into women's and men's personalities on Facebook adn MySpace as well. It is disheartening to see that as much as we think we may be moving towards progress where masculinity and femininity don't have to be defined in narrow antiquated ways, we are not as far as we need to be.
Post a Comment