Rosie Pickens
Professor Diaz
Comm 11
11/27/2015
Formal Outline for Reasoning and Analysis Paper
Topic: Online Self - Presentation
INTRODUCTION
Thesis Statement: Online self-presentation has become a controlled way on how we perceive our own identity with acceptance from online.
Preview: I will discuss how online self-presentation is define self, self-esteem, and the effect online have on young teenagers.
I. First main point: Self- presentation can be defined in many ways as a picture, hobbies, amount of friends, dating and etc. Social networking sites once was used for school, work, and etc. Now social networking sites are used to present yourself to the world. Although social networking sites has change the way young people would identify
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Second main point: When dealing with online activity self-esteem plays a big role. According to film Frontline young teens used online for acceptance that they didn’t receive in the real world. Self – esteem is projected to be positive or negative behavior for attention. Nevertheless no matter how you may feel about yourself you still seek for acceptance from your peers. Although you have love and acceptance at home from your love ones it doesn’t add up when not approved from your peers. Social networking helps define young teenager’s self-esteem. It can help you identify how you look, dress, relationship status and etc. However the film talked briefly about a young teenager that took his life. Listening to his father and other peers he was being cyberbullying which I would say relates to self-esteem. Social networking sites can’t stop negative behavior which can lead to low self-esteem. Encountering negative behavior from peers can lower your self-esteem no matter how much love and caring you receive from your love …show more content…
Third main point: Nevertheless both articles and film described how self-presentation and self-esteem encounter for acceptance. According to film Frontline a 14 year old teen girl was not accepted in the real world among her peers. Her social life was shot until she made a profile of how she would like to be perceived by others. She became so popular online by the pictures she was posting it had help her build her self-esteem off online, she began to feel accepted. As a young adult that grew up online I can relate to these articles and film. When I first encounter online I was 14 years old. I lived online every day. I would post pictures every day and wait for comments. As technology picked up I would forever be on it on my cell. I have been a part of the popular group and now I’m a part of not popular. Over the years I seen the changes online has done to us as teenagers into adult. I could never leave it alone. It also became a competing thing with amount of friends you have and pictures you post in a day. Today I’m have distance myself from the social networking sites. I chose to do so because I have a child that I want to teach him the proper way to use online. I don’t want the social networking sites to take control of his life as it did to