4: Opt. 2 An honest profile?

For this weeks assignment, I decided to analyze my best friend’s Facebook. I expected to find a great deal of exageration and selective self presentation, as facebook is an easily modifiable and widely utilized forum for social interaction amoungst college students. I started out by looking carefully through his profile. I could not detect a single piece of falsehood on the page, and I have been very close with this individual since we were three. When I interviewed him about his profile, his scores were as such:

Name: 5
Sex: 5
Interested In: 5
Relationship Status: 5
Looking For:5
Birthday: 5
Hometown: 5
Political Views: 5
Contact Info (Email and Residence): 5
Interests: 5
Favorite Music: 5
Favorite Quotes: 5
Favorite TV Shows: 5
Favorite Movies: 5
Education Info: 5
Work Info: 5
Profile Photo: 5
Networks: 5
Friends: 5
Groups: 5

It is clear that my friend was completely honest on his profile. He, like most college students, uses the site constantly. He keeps his page updated to manage his self presentation to accurately reflect his present interests. His profile photograph was an honest and reflective photo, and he has hundreds of redundant tagged photos of him and his friends doing nothing. It is clear that he neither untags photographs nor deletes wall posts. It is interesting to me that he chooses not to manipulate his profile page with any lies, or even exaggerations. I imagine that this is because he understands that Facebook provides almost no anonymity, and it is easy to detect deception.