Finally it was time to present our characters, in the process I had established Chelsea Mai Riley on 5 social media platforms. By the end of the assignment she had 67 friends on Facebook, 24 followers on Twitter and 4 followers on Tumblr. In a short time this is quite an achievement, particularly the Twitter followers as the majority were genuine strangers, compared to Facebook in which the friends were class members and their own fake characters. In our presentation my group explained that we each actually had a character as we had create a sort of sitcom in which these group of strangers have been thrown together in uni halls and it follows there lives, they each have stories to tell and secrets to share. For instance Chelsea-Mai is in love with fellow room mate Chad, However Chad is actually gay and Chelsea-Mai being such a bimbo does not realise this. Our presentation went well, we had lots to show as there was lots of content for the characters.
There are things I wish i could change about my character looking back though. I think it would have been an excellent idea if that while on Facebook and Twitter, she did just seem superficial in a private blog I'd explored the real Chelsea-Mai who does in fact have more depth to her than people imagine, she just hides it. I also like the idea that instead of using myself for the pictures (while that was fun) I'd have used someone else and then added my own friends on her profile, to see if I could fool any of them into believing that Chelsea was a real person, that would have been a true test as to whether I succeeded in created a real online identity.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003597313536
https://twitter.com/#!/ChelseaMaiJLS
http://chelseamaijls.tumblr.com/
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