What I chose to relate to Identity and Culture is the website that has taken over the world: Myspace. I, along with virtually, the rest of the world, go on it and am able to see different people's pages. First of all, I believe this relates to the concept of identity because people are able to express themselves and create their own identities through many different ways on Myspace. You go on someone's site, and immediately get a taste of their identity because of the way they layout their page. Different backgrounds, songs, pictures and words give feeling to what the person is all about. Also, people on Myspace express their feelings by writing blogs and bulletins about their lives.
On the other hand, other people on Myspace choose to hide their identities by pretending to be other people or just trying to be people other than themselves. As I hear on the news more and more lately, there are internet predators on sites like Myspace, doing wierd things to try to meet people. Although, on a lesser scale, people just try to be people that they're not. Because you have the freedom of doing whatever with your page that you want, you can pretty much be whoever you want. For example, people too scared to do, say, and show things in real life could do it on their space.
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