Life through a computer interface

Social media is a topic everyone wants to talk about these days and without doubt these networking sites have in some way become part of our daily lives and vocabulary. 

Ultimately the game has changed and humans are changing with it. There has essentially been a fundamental shift in not only how we communicate, but also the ways in which we represent and document ourselves and our experiences. We give ourselves new names, new faces and a false sense of security, with the anonymity of the internet masking a morphing layer between reality and representation. 

Various social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter, google plus and Myspace allow an instant connectivity with various aspects of the lives of family, friends, and people we didn't even know we knew. Not only are these social networking sites specifically used for social aspects of instant connectivity, it is also used as a political tool which interact to voice opinions, organise protests and disseminate information. 

So these so called "social media sites" are accentually much more complex than a social networking site, rather they act as a way to tell stories, document experiences, share information, stay and get connected, and represent ourselves in short.

So all this seems seemingly positive in our conventional and enticing new modern age technology area. But critiques suggest Facebook in particular disconnects us not only from ourselves, but also the way in which we represent ourselves. There becomes a significant gap between the layers which conform to convey the truth, with a significant loss  of identity. A gap mediated between these networking sites and reality conforms as we start to experience life through a computer/networking interfacing device as opposed to something that is really lived. 

As humans have the power also to discriminate in their minds, with the ability to cancel out and correct things creating an ambiguity between the way they represent themselves and the way they perceive themselves creating a sense of hyperreality.
The screen interfaces such a significant gap between the way we represent our selves and reality, with the power of the mind creating concealing and confining out details of reality in this interface that the power of the mind corrects these through the way they perceive and represent themselves through social networking sites to reality, creating this sense of hyperreality identity. In shorter words this is inscriptive of saying that the this gap morphs together in our minds to perceive ourselves in reality as the typically more superior persona we represent ourselves through this interface.
Who wouldn't want to appear physically more desirable? or appear to portray social and physical attributes they desire making them more superhuman?
Through the anonymity and power of technology we can change ourselves through editing out and correcting information, much the same as we do in our mind unconsciously to some extent but seeming so much more powerful and convincing through expressing our new super self through this interface. Which I believe we therefore convince in our minds and change ourselves to match this identity we portray through a screen.
But what happens to the world 'difference' we supposedly live in when we all have the ability to change ourselves and how we represent ourselves through something that becomes an interface of living reality. We question ourselves is the world ultimately in danger of loosing difference as we all strive for a superior self?

Technology has robbed us of miracles of life as we no longer experience through the eye and senses, rather we are too alined to capture our experiences through screen interface to represent and retell the experience that we essentially neglect the moment in time.