Question

Social media and other online settings have changed the processes of impression management. Discuss.

Answer 1

Impression Management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person,object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction.It is usually used with self presentation in which person tries to influence the perception of their image.For example, A person in a singing competition will try to showcase his talent and will sing at the best level as the judge is evaluating them.

Social Media and other online settings have changed the process of impression management. Impression Management is influenced by the social media and other online settings. People are getting influenced by the social media and celebrities that they are jist pretending to behave like them in the regular life. Eg In some netflix series if the women is wearing jewels at the night also,some part of the viewers tends to wear those jewels similarly like the actor who became their role model and they wanted to enact just like them.They tend to forget their usage of brain that it is irrelevant to wear jewellery in night.The actors wear it beacuse they have to showcase their role play and not in reality but.Similarly people get influenced by the social media and they just wanted to maintain their standards like that.Due to the presence of social media and other settings people are becoming more conscious about their profiles,engagements and they tend to do only those tasks which will increase their popularity.

Conclusion-Thus,Usage of brain along with the social media is very essential so that impression management happen wisely.