What do your various profiles on social media say about your authentic sense of self? What should they say?

Honored to have a column I wrote included in Flow Journal’s new special issue, on the social media app, BeReal. My column argues that BeReal potentially reshapes how social media platforms may impact identity development for users, especially young people. Social media spaces have become increasingly influential forces on how people understand and present themselves to the world, and if we want to understand social media as a tool–and as an aspect of our media environments–then we need to promote critical discussions like those prompted by this special issue!