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This study analyzes the complexity and psychological intricacies of user interaction on \u00a0FB. After interviewing 13 different FB users the researchers were able to categorize the platform as three different functional regions; performance, exhibition, and personal. They reached this conclusion after asking the FB users to review their profiles; reflecting on their current activity, privacy attitude, as well as other factors that can impact the user experience.<\/p>\n
I found the section Tensions Between Public and Personal Regions<\/em> very interesting because it is something I can relate to. To start off with, I mostly use FB for the messenger as its chat feature is more reliable than some carriage coverage. I don\u2019t consider myself an avid FB user, I check it maybe a few times a day but I hardly post anything on it. Personally I don\u2019t like to publicize personal details but lately I\u2019ve been thinking that in the long term I\u2019ll regret not being as active. For example FB has that feature that reminds one of old posts one made on that particular date. I was more active in HS than I am now so now that I\u2019m in college I see old posts corresponding to that day. However, in my late 20\u2019s if all I see still are posts I made in middle\/high school it\u2019ll be a little depressing.<\/p>\n I think I\u2019ll begin to add photo albums of when I go on trips or short vacations because it gives my phone more memory but also because it\u2019ll be nice to have an archive of photos to just look back on maybe 5,10, 20 years. Let\u2019s say I run into an old friend at a pub, more often than not I won\u2019t have my laptop with me but if we want revisit some moment I could log onto my FB and it\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n Another section in the study I found to be relatable was Exhibition: Managing Content. <\/em>Right now, I\u2019m struggling in terms of managing relevance. When I check on my FB feed I have friends getting married, buying homes, backpacking Europe, while my last post was about 2 years ago. Sometimes I feel that especially family back in Peru would like to know what I\u2019m up to but part of me also finds it emotionally exhausting to reply to comments, which is why I like IG better. A picture and a caption is all I really need.<\/p>\n I never really thought about it but being a FB user has one subconsciously thinking of their long term image, as I have lately. At the same time, it\u2019s a struggle because part of me doesn\u2019t want to share those moments with the whole world because I want them to be intimate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why doesn\u2019t FB provide functionality to stop altogether friend requests?<\/p>\n Why does FB allow people to explicitly view someone\u2019s message?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This study analyzes the complexity and psychological intricacies of user interaction on \u00a0FB. After interviewing 13 different FB users the researchers were able to categorize the platform as three different functional regions; performance, exhibition, and personal. They reached this conclusion after asking the FB users to review their profiles; reflecting on their current activity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}