During this course about being online, we have worked with at many different perspectives on this topic. For instance, we have worked with social medias like Twitter, Youtube and Facebook. Today, we have developed a network, which has led to the development of social medias, which gives us many possibilities. Andrew Fitzgerald talks about how new media turns into new formats which turn into new stories. Many authors experimented with short stories at social medias / web pages as Twitter and Amazon, and these new ways of telling a short story give the short story a whole new format. In addition to our use of social medias we take selfies and post them online. In this way, we promote ourselves.  But one of the more concerning factors about the whole online thing, is that we seem to strive to show how perfect we are and sometimes we end up forgetting that difference is good. I believe that we should intend to focus more on posting things that show how creative, unexpected and mysterious we are. I would like us as a community to be more open-minded and thereby engage in a dimensional network with room for everyone to be unique and trendy in their own way. 

We post selfies to create a self-image we like. We can retake our selfies until we’ve satisfied with the result and what we think our self-image should be like. What we post online can be front and/or back region where back is more personal, you let the viewers see something more private about yourself and front is more of a set-up, like it isn’t private and personal. But everything we post is front region since we select what we want our viewers to see and what not to see even if the content of the post might be more personal. The tastemakers, the unexpectedness, and communities of participation are what make videos go viral. 

With our new media, you can change your format to how/and what you want it. For example real-time storytelling, blurring the line between fact and fiction, the real world and the digital one, flexible identity and anonymity.

Videos go viral, because of the big online world we have today. We watch a funny video on Facebook, which we think is so funny our friends must be tagged. That make us tastemakers, and it creates participating communities. In the video something unexpected happens, and it is like the short story ‘Evidence’, which was posted on Twitter. 

Furthermore, we watched a presentation of how Twitter can be used by Andrew Fitzgerald. He talked about how authors were creating stories online in different ways to entertain their readers. We for example heard about a woman who made multiple Twitter accounts just to create a story that was authentic. She switched between the accounts to post tweets that after all created a good story with multiple perspectives. 

At last we read about how a student came up with multiple ideas of how to change the world with social media. She wanted something for everyone in every stage of life where they could talk to their own range of people. 

We have got to know a new tool to look through pictures and updates posted online, called front or back region. When and where you are private and when you are formal. With this simple method you have a very good starting point if you want to analyze things on the internet. 

In addition I have actually discovered a whole new world of novels and other stories on the internet because they have been posted in a way that I wasn’t aware of before. We have read a story that a writer wrote on twitter from different accounts  and thereby formed a story on social media but also a new perspective or way of showing the different angles of the story. 

I can see why the selfie part was a topic, but it didnt really follow my interrest, since i am not that much into selfies ( granted i do take selfies ) but when i do, i dont reallyt hink ”highly” of them, its not like i stand and pose infront of the camera for hours, and taking pictures before i take the ”perfect ” one, but just a quick selfie of me doing something.  Instead other people wanat to show their perfect side, which is influenced by maybe hours of traning.

The whole Twitter thing was quite funny, it made me explore the twitter universe more and since its not something that i was aware of existed, so it was a funny and learning experience, the part where we had to make a timeline and come up with what we thought happend. 

Goodbye 

Love from Per and Karoline :)))FUE(HFUF