Before going onto our next brief, we were asked to look at identity and what it is, we see identity as 'what you are perceived as', however do you ever know someone's real identity? Many only allow you to see what they want you see, to be seen as socially acceptable. While take Facebook for instance, is that your real identity, yes mine shows pictures of me and so many would think I'm just a girl that likes to go out, but there's much more to me than that, really my Twitter and even my Tumblr shows much more about me and my identity, but because they're much more personal, I don't advertise them as feely as i do Facebook. Whilst others use tools such as Facebook to almost enhance their identity, to show themselves as what they wish to be, not what they are and so its not a true representation of their identity, instead its almost like role play.
And so from this we looked at Weavrs, a website that communicates through Twitter and Facebook, you simply create a persona, how you want your Weavr to be seen, what they like/dislike, where they live etc and then you give them free reign to your Twitter/Facebook and they post. We created our own and they even managed to post a bit before they were suspended. Here's mine:
It was interesting to see that a 'bot' could act somewhat like a human being, but its also quite disturbing in my opinion

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