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I think you make some great points, but with your discussion on a person real-life persona and online persona, I started thinking more about the possibilities. I also have a facebook account and after looking over some things I realize that, yes, I do think that I have changed over the years and facebook, through posts, photos etc. has captured this. I do not think that I am being fake on facebook, or even unreal...however, I am also not completely honest. If I have a bad day, I don't make it my status. I don't post secrets, or in general anything that I would rather not put out there. The interaction between the real-life persona and the online persona I see is that I have more control over the online one. In real-life, maybe it's more difficult to hide emotions, or distract one self from the reality that is, but online, without really lying, you can still have an altered persona...or a half persona...or just one that is incomplete in the way you would like for it to be?