Impression management Activity

Assignment 3- Impression Management Activity
Impression Management on Social Media
In this activity, you will conduct a content analysis of Facebook or Instagram to determine how users engage in impression management on social media. 
 
Goffman formulated his theories of social interaction before the age of the internet and social media. Social Media sites like Facebook and Instagram dramatically change the ways in which individuals can utilize impression management to ensure that people see them the way they want to be seen. 

Elect three people you follow on Instagram or are friends with on Facebook

Analyze their profile photo, and then their last 5 posted photos by asking the following questions: What is the photo of? If it is a person, what are they doing? What are they wearing? If it is not a person, what is it? Where? What impression of your friend does the photo create?

 Next, review the last 10 posts of each person. What are the posts about?

Create categories to help you classify the posts (for example, politics, everyday life, accomplishments, vacations, outings, etc.). If any posts are of photos, analyze the photo in the way that you did the profile picture. Once you have coded the status updates, write a short couple sentence sociological analysis of how each individual uses impression management on Facebook/ Instagram. 

EXAMPLES
Friend 1 -her and her daughter from her daughters 6th birthday party with cake, wearing a casual shirt
Last 10 posts
Post about FFA Legacy
Post about 2 hour fog delay for local school
Post about having brown water in their local area
Re share of someones post who needs diapers and wipes for their child
Photos- decorated for Halloween, and daughters birthday dinner and dessert, photos of daughters birthday day, cartoon of dealing with bullies, cartoon about feeling important in the world
Tagged in a post by daughters grandma about her granddaughters birthday
Post about growing up playing gin the wood in the summers without adult supervision
Friend 2 -picture of her and husband, wearing a black tank top and sunglasses, both with beverages in hand
Last 10 posts
photos Elle woods from legally blonde about who I am and who Im trying to be, tagged in a memory of a cartoon witch and candy corn coming from her feet
Post about daughters first school fall festival 4 years ago
Post about asking to fill in the blank about candy corn
Post about who had Johnny Weir and Carole Baskin on Dancing with the Stars
Post about who had Zoom and Canvas shutdown in 2020
Shared post of their dog at doggy day care howling
Wayward student post
CDC link about COVID 19 and daycares
Donation post to fundraiser for the Academic Mama Foundation
 
Friend 3 -His kids snuggling with an iPad in pjs
Last 10 posts
Politics- anti Biden post
photos 1. Grilled chicken wings, 2. grilled frog legs
3. Hair joke
Tagged in five finger death punch music videos
Post about football 
Post about beating wife in euchre with brother
Tagged by friend about the taste of fall with deer meat
Post about local fire department fundraiser 
His birthday was 2 days ago