1. Social media has turned into an equivalency to water in society. Without having any form
of social media it becomes practically impossible to be successful even in your daily life. When it
comes to college, jobs, apps, and many other things social media is necessary, but there is a lot
that social media hides. Social media is a kaleidoscope, it looks all pretty but when you actually
think about it, it’s just a bunch of colors.
On my social media, I come off as this very confident and joyful girl; but when it comes
down to it for many of those pictures I was neither of those things. For I was very insecure and I
would often clean up all my blemishes on my face as well as the birthmark on my back. I was
foolish to be covering it up all the time when no one probably would have seen me any different
than they do today; “...the birthmark did absolutely nothing to diminish her beauty.” (Page 292)
Also, I was not a confident person. I was actually very depressed throughout my high
school career. When looking at my Facebook and Instagram you would not have guessed. All of
my pictures were happy, I was always with friends and going out. Now, if you looked at my
Twitter, you would definitely know that I was not a very happy person. My tweets were very
negative and not me. People would always judge me by how I was on Twitter and I would get
nasty looks. Rarely would I get asked to go out with a group of people and do things because
they would assume I would be how I was on Twitter, a debbie downer.
This reminded me a lot about how Wade was insecure about his weight and his looks.
He made himself look more muscular. He also made himself seem more confident and he stood
up for himself online; whereas, offline he would never stand up for himself. I think that a lot of
people do this, they are very confident and able to say anything they want on the internet. This
leads to bullying and a false perspective of someone. I have, what they call “subtweeted” about
or to someone because they were not being nice, but my tweet back did not help anything
either. This shows that I am a little bit like Wade; the difference is I am someone who isn’t afraid
of confrontation and would tell them anything to their face if their was a problem.

2. My social media also gives off that I am very close to my family. This is very true, I and
my family are closer than ever; but I have more pictures of me and my little brother Jonah,
showing that I am closer to him than the others. Which is also true, my little brother is like my
own child. He and I are equivalent to the same person, simply by how our personalities are and
our hobbies are the same. We always have a great time with one another and he is one of my
best friends. We love teaming up on the other siblings even much like what Wade does with
Aech in his basement against I-r0k, “Aech grinned and gave me a double high-five…” (page 44).
One thing that the social media also shows is the support asked for by the community. We have
almost lost both my dad and my little brother. Over the use of social media, I and the family
found both comfort and support by many. This kept us going and stay strong. It always helped
to read the words of encouragement from other people whether they were close friends of the
family or simply strangers who heard about our situation.
I feel as if Wade would have had the support of social media when his parents passed
away that he would have been in a better spot. He was not very well taken care of and how he
dresses and acts in the OASIS may hint towards that. He does not have a very large amount of
money helping him through his journey; but neither do I. People may think that through how I
dress in hand down clothes and how I tweet about how broke I am.
Some may receive the impression that I “get around” because I have a lot of pictures
with other guys but I really just get along much better with males better than females. This
probably gives off an impression that is false to society. My profile is also visible to people, but
my information is not. I keep all my information about myself such as my family, relationship
status, phone number and address hidden; I do this to show people that I don’t want anyone
who doesn’t NEED my information to have it. I believe that too many girls just put that
information out like it is not a big deal; but in reality, it could be a huge deal that could be a life
or death situation.

3. In the OASIS they hide each player’s personal information including the players name.
This makes it nearly impossible for someone to find another player. By doing this, The players
are safer and out of harms way. One legitimately never know who is on the other side of the
computer screen. This is obviously very dangerous, but with the help of privacy it’s possible for
no one to be able to find someone.
When looking at the pages I have liked, I noticed that I am not a person who like one
type of subject. I like many things and many opposites. When someone looks at my page they
are probably surprised because I don’t look like the type of person who likes the things I do. I
have liked pages such as; Motorsports, cars, oils, Dairy Queen, kid shows, and many movies of
so many different genre. This list is all over the place, I am a very variety based person which
one could gather from looking at my Facebook page.
Overall, this looking at my own social media page made me realize that I should be very
careful what I put on the internet. I have also came to the realization that I don’t need to touch
anything up. I can show who I truly am very clearly through social media; but in order to do this I
need to start really thinking about what I say and put up. The internet is a blessing and a curse
but in the end it is how I use the social media to my advantage.