SumBlog 8

   George Herbert Mead talks about the generalized other and the self.  The generalized other is how we as society worry about what others think of us and wonder, are we separate or not.  The self is classified into two parts, the I and the Me.  The I is the person you need to be in relation to those around you.  This is your own identity.  The Me are attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors after the I has been filtered, how we have been raised, how we would approach situations.
   We did an activity in class dealing with Facebook and if it takes on more of the I or the Me.  I am personally in between on this issue.  Most people still choose to have that filter when updating a status or posting pictures, which would take on the Me.  But I have also seen people who post status's they should probably have kept to themselves and provocative pictures that should not be posted in my opinion.  This would take on more of the I, where people just do not seem to care what others think of what they have to say or do and there is no filter.
    We also watched the movie Liar Liar in class, with the part where Jim Carey is telling the truth about how he feels about everyone, including his boss, and they are laughing and thinking he's just being funny.  They did not understand that he was being serious because he was being so up front and forward about the way he felt.

I feel that we think too much about what people will think of us, that our society thrives on the opinions of others and that makes it hard for us to be ourselves.  Instead we so many images we have to up hold with so many different people, we don't know who we are anymore.