Peggy Orenstein's Essay 'I Tweet, Therefore I Am'

In the essay “I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” New York Times author and essayist Peggy Orenstein observe how social networking sites have people connected online sites, as Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Instantly posting the present moments of their daily life’s, instead of enjoying the moment. Orenstein also states how distracted, she gets from living the moment by turning to social networking to post about her day. Twitter and other Social Networking sites have affected her and the society in general. Losing the capacity to experience our own lives, unable to feel that we exist without the reflection of ourselves through a social networking site. As technology advances, communicating with one another also advances. Social Networking is one main form of communication of today. Millions of people draw into being connected that friends become fans. As Orenstein mentions that “The risk of the performance culture, of the packaged self, is that it erodes the very relationships it purports to create, and alienates us from our own humanity” (285). Orenstein’s words are so clearly written on how social networking has changed her communication, her private life not being so private that she turns to social networking to post herself expressing in a very neutral tone; that you could read that this essay …show more content…
According to Professor Sherry Turkle, from M.I.T “On Twitter or Facebook you’re trying to express something real about who you are,” she explained. “But because you’re also creating something for others; consumption, you find yourself imaging and playing to your audience more and more” (285). When one makes a profile and adds the information about themselves, it is how that person wants others to see them making up your profile. Writing in information that well catch the