Tim Virtual Identity

I feel as though my virtual reality mirrors my actual self fairly well. I like to think that I'm a fairly straight forward person, and content enough with who I am to share with others. Some people, I have noticed, try to bolster their appearance on social media to maybe make themselves seem more impressive. The question I always ask is who are you trying to impress? My pages are me. The sarcasm that I share on my pages and the sick and sometimes sadistic humor that make an appearance on my page are the same things that I enjoy in real life. Of course, I use the term "enjoy" very loosely. Personally, I use social media for a form of entertainment. When I log into Facebook or Instagram, I like to look a posts and pages that make me feel happy, or leave me laughing. With that, I like to try and instill the same feeling amongst those that may be viewing my page or seeing what I post. I don’t want to be characterized as one of those people that are always complaining about every minute detail about their life to their Facebook friends instead of hitting the problem head-on to mitigate it. In the same token, with today’s electronic society, the last thing that I want is for a future employer to look at my page(s) and see nothing but vulgarity and negativity. If I were an employer and see nothing but complaining and whining on someone’s page, that screams to me that the person is not proactive. They would rather sit back and ride the wave, rather than swim through it and fight the resistance. With that being said, if my personal page is nothing but unprofessional, what will that look like to someone that is looking in to hiring me as a part of their company? They say that first impressions can mean the world. What more is social media than one giant first impression? Wouldn’t you want it to be the best that it possibly can?