The way to “reinvent” yourself through Facebook was by uploading more pictures of yourself, sharing all your thoughts and feelings in wall posts, and befriending more people on the platform. There was no more auto-playing music, no more hyper-personalised fonts, no more “Top 8”. Rather than highly customisable backgrounds and features, everyone was given the same, finished profile. Even on Myspace, where I uploaded real pictures of myself, my image was heavily curated – reflecting the person I wanted to be seen as (in this case, an emo skateboarder) to a small group of friends.īut Facebook changed all that. I used anonymous personas on MSN messenger and on forums, where I would have to lie about my age in order to gain access.
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I started with a Bebo website that was mainly about the anime series Beyblade. It was a few weeks before I was due to start sixth form, and, having attended an all boys school, the idea of a mixed class represented a rare opportunity of reinvention.īefore then, I, like most who grew up on the internet, had gone through clunkier patterns of online existence. I signed up to Facebook in the summer of 2007.
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