Consider each prompt and respond to all.
How do you form perceptions about others when you primarily rely on social media to make these perceptions? What do you focus on?
How accurate do you think your perceptions of others are on social media and how do you know? What types of errors do you believe you might commit when forming perceptions online?
While using social media, how can perception/attribution errors impact the perception of others and negatively affect communication?
Your initial post should be at least 250 words
then respond to a classmate with 200 words
1- How I form my perception on someone on social media is the first thing I look at is pictures. If the person is dressed in a suit, then that person is very sophisticated. If a guy posts a body picture, then that could mean he loves to workout. Same goes for the females but there is one thing I look at is when females stick out their butt then I know she could be more on the other side. The next thing I look at is what they post. What they post is who they are in my opinion. You post stuff because either you found it funny, or you truly believe in it.
My accuracy on this is pretty accurate. I know it is accurate because when I talk to them, I can tell. I can also tell when my friends talk about them. It’s not hard to tell how someone is. Look at their post and they will tell you a lot about the person. I did not have any errors in my perception of someone. My strategy has always worked for me, and I haven’t run into any errors yet so that is a good thing.
Having the wrong perception can negatively affect you on your communication with the person. Just because a person is wearing a suit in their pictures does not mean they have a really nice job. They could be wearing it for a nice occasion. That is why I said you must look on what they post because that will tell you.
2- i form perceptions about others using social media based on their posts. I look at things like what they are doing in the posts, or the comment that is associated along with the social media post. I can also look at what, or who they are following to see what kind of things they like or what kind of group they might belong to.
I don’t follow anyone that I don’t know personally or have met in real life, of course excluding celebrities or organizations I might like. But if I were to go off solely on their social media, I don’t think that my perception of them would be that accurate, because I am different from other people as I have different likes and dislikes. So, if I go just off what I can see on social media I’d be biased towards my own likes and dislikes and can lead me to have a negative perception on someone without knowing more about them. Some errors that I might commit when forming perceptions online is focusing on only one thing rather than the full picture. I also probably form a perception on someone too quickly if I only see them online as I am missing a whole different side to them. As they can only show the side of them that they want to.
Perception errors can impact communication negatively according to the primacy effect, which is where our first impression of a person can overshadow impressions later. I feel this can happen a lot with social media, as you may think a person is going to be a certain way because of what they post or comment about on their social media account.
