Wan+Tiffany

Tiffany Wan

For the Issue Analysis Website, I plan to address the significance of personal webpages and issues of self identity through the medium of the Internet. As there is an increase in the popularity of personal webpages throughout recent years, an increase in the variety of reasons of the creation of such pages are evident as well. Thus a variety of blogs will be examined and featured as links on the website. The main purpose of the website is not only to address, but bring awareness to the benefits and capabilities of the usage of personal webpages.

The following is a link to my website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/wantiffany​

Critical Analysis Meng Han Lu To some extent, the personal webpage also mirrors owner's peronal values as they appear in the real world. "Moving beyond relationships with self-reported variables (cf. [|Baumeister et al., 2007] R.F. Baumeister, K.D. Vohs and D.C. Funder, Psychology as the science of self-reports and finger movements: Whatever happened to actual behavior?, //Perspectives on Psychological Science// **2** (2007), pp. 396–403. **Full Text** via CrossRef [|Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007]), we observed that first impressions formed from personal webpages provided perceivers with valid information about the webpage authors’ spontaneous likability in 'real life'." (Max Weisbuch,2008) Correpondence is existed explicitly or implicitly between the personal webpages and behaviors in real life. Although people are trying to portrait themselves to be perfect on personal webpages, the contents, style, layout, video even color betrayed their owners. Views can decipt the first impression of the owner by interpreting these signs. The person's apprearance in the real life is obvious and explicit while the web image implies the desire hidding in their subconciousness. Compared to the verbal expressivity in face-to-face communication, the nonverbal expressivity on the personal webpages transfers the owner's information as well. Therefore, there is a connection between the first impression in the real life and personal webpages.

Reference Max Weisbuch, Zorana Ivcevic and Nalini Ambady, "On Being liked on the web and in the 'real world': Consistency in first impressions across personal webpages and spontaneous behavior", //Journal of Experimental Social Psychology//, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2009, Pages 573-576 Baumeister et al.,2007, R.F. Baumeister, K.D. Vohs and D.C. Funder, Psychology as the science of self-reports and finger movements: Whatever happened to actual behavior?, //Perspectives on Psychological Science// **2** (2007), pp. 396–403.