Love in social networks: The social representention of perfect Self as couple through the image on Facebook and Instagram

Abstract

Social networks have generated a series of changes within social dynamics,
the construction of identities, and with it, the ways that we represent ourselves
as persons. The level of change has been so high that we have lost
boundaries between how we relate to other people, and the limits of what
can be considered as private and public, even reaching levels of "spectacularization".
In this way, we have fallen into the obsession of recognition and
the opening of our privacy, and, therefore, we only want to show ourselves
as perfect people in all areas, that is, an open window to sell me as a perfect
person. This paper explores this dynamic from the timely description of profiles
of several people, in order to highlight the new ways of generating the
"first impression".