Most “Zoomers” or peoples of the Generation Z use isntragram or some form of social media.What makes us different than those generations who use social media before us is that we have learned to curate and exploit the use of creating an online persona. We personally use Instagram or other social media’s to portray the best forms of ourselves. If you’re looking at this from a far back, it doesn’t seem like much however, as a break it down further in this post it may seem a little more serious.
Left and right people no thrive to be part of this cookie cutter personality. The desire they have to be just like everyone else is so strong because of the use of social media. The curate our Instagram’s to look like your friends, because if you don’t did you really live and experience? Left and right people no thrive to be part of this cookie cutter personality. The desire they have to be just like everyone else is so strong because of the use of social media. We curate our Instagram‘s to look like your friends, because if you don’t did you really live and experience?
I wanted to apply some of the senses I read about in the article, and using some of the examples and ideas that are used in the rules of perception in communication. The communication in the zoomer eyes is the lack there of. To further explain the main focus that I will be talking about is Instagram. The other brakes perception down into structural, and functional. To be able to further analyze and apply their ideas, I will be using a subjects Instagram to explain.
When you look at this picture automatically, your brain “decodes” it. Through past experiences, culture expectations, motivation, moods, attitudes we have towards that subject or in this case social media outlets used by zoomers. Our brains only taken what we see and what we comprehend, with that case we do many assumptions based on our perception. Based on this Instagram post, this person has curated the idea of a very aesthetic person. The author describes this as a transnational form of expression. It may seem that this person may have their life together because of the aesthitic that they present however, just like the room, when taking a step back it is just a simple layout that correlates nothing to who they are as a person. In other words, when we correlate someones personal instagram with the aesthtic they present, it may not always mathc up. This can also be seen in Tinder Profiles when someoe presents themselves in a manner that is not the same as in real life.
Another point made by the author is the Anti prejudice cartoon and how the intention of the creator was to stop the use of prejudice by bringing it up in a satirical light however it portrayed the exact opposite response. I relate this to our generation in how we must be PC (politically correct) in almost every aspect of social media or we will be dragged. Thoughts cannot be shared anymore without the fear of being constrained into a certain type of comedy that everyone can enjoy and not be offended by.
All of these censors pertaining to the Instagram post and the tweet all relate with one another through an underlying factor of psychological filters that we put our thoughts through before anyone is able to perceive it. To put it in another way, people the way that we exert information becomes filtered in a form where we know people would best perceive it. The audience of the media is what controls the intention which in turn the perception as well. This is clearly seen in my generation as a zoomer as we quickly try to please those around us in a fashion that will be the least critical.
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