Web Identity

Ok, first the "Inter-Activity" article. When i read the first scenario in this article, i thought "this girl is multi-tasking. that may not be all that unusual for people today, but she seems to be taking it to an extreme." But then i got farther down and the author says that this is not multi-tasking. For one, most of what she is doing on the computer is not exactly "work." She is chatting and listening to music and while doing homework.  They were not really tasks, and i didn't exactly get the impression that she was being very productive, something which multi-tasking is supposed to be. The fact that you can do so much over the computer at the same time was very interesting. And i thought it was really interesting when you compare face-to-face conversations and online ones. How rude would it be to being doing a million different things when a friend is trying to tell you something that is really bothering them and making them sad.
I by far liked the Williams article better though. Because i have not been on MySpace for who knows how long and i being on Facebook, i don't really see as much of the "profile identity" that so many people had on myspace. I no longer have pictures of my celebrity crushes and favorite movies pasted on my profile like i did on MySpace when i was in junior high and high school. And it is not just because Facebook does not quite offer those kinds of things like MySpace did. Even when i look at other people's profiles, i do not go searching for the pop-culture kind of information. I think the pictures one chooses to post tells a lot about them. And of course, the status posts tells a lot about someone, sometimes more than i wanted to know. But most importantly and something i did not notice Williams discussing is what others post on the profile. I think that tells a lot about a person too, which is interesting because it is not necessarily something that one chooses to post on their own profile.