Many people think Twitter is just a place for people to follow celebrities to know about their whereabouts or upcoming news. It is quickly catching on just like Facebook did and now all types of people are using Twitter. This is a great example of the looking-glass self for multiple reasons. One reason is that your tweets directly affect how people see you based on how frequent you tweet and what you tweet about. People might think you're funny, annoying, have good taste in music, etc. If people "favorite" or "re-tweet" your tweets or tweet you back then you know people enjoy looking at your Twitter which will cause you to keep tweeting. Another reason this is a good example of looking-glass self is how many "followers" you have. If someone has a lot of followers, they might feel confident and that think that people care about what they have to say. Some people are so concerned about being dropped by followers (aka "un-followed") that there are websites to track if people unfollow them.
-Mallory
Twitter is catching on especially between my friends and I. The looking glass self is shown through this because I myself think that the more followers I have, the more people like me and the more I feel confident in myself.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that Twitter is rapidly turning into the same type of wedbsite as Facebook is. I for one always check the number of people I'm following versus the number of people that are following me. As silly as it sounds I don't want to be following too many more people than are following me because then I feel like people don't want to follow me back. Sometimes I even forget that I follow numerous celebrities that clearly will not follow me back, but I still check to see.
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