Facebook
is the place where I need to find a unique me or my true identity. I am always
“Me” but I feel like there are many different “Me”s in different context with
different people. I speak and act differently depending whom I am talking to.
Not many people are on Facebook, but I have my family, friends from voluntary
work, friends from graduate school, colleagues from my previous companies, and
my PLN in ISLT community. Some are close and some are not…Some speak Korean and
some speak English…It was quite difficult to define me in this mixed context
and I was wondering how I should speak and act in this space…To what extent I
would reveal my personal life, my values, and thinking. The first thing I did
when I thought about this matter was cancelling the friends with people who I
do not want to share my personal life and thinking…Well…It was not an easy
decision, but I just did not want to keep up to date with them anymore. Then, I
changed my official language on Facebook because I had many American friends since
I came to U.S. However, my Korean friends gave me comments in Korea and
American friends in English on the same post. Most of my Korean friends can
understand English but none of my English friends can what my Korean friends
are saying. If they are curious, they will use translation tool, but it will
not work well because the language we are using on Facebook are very short,
colloquial, and often times very ungrammatical. Anyway, I kind of decide the
cyberspace to post something very safe to share with everybody…mostly about my
kids, trips, foods, and weather…I do not post my deep thinking, opinion, or
emotion…These are for really close friends who know me well…Unfortunately, I
cannot name this type of person…Hmm...
