Social Media; A Proper Judgement Tool?

Should people be judged by their social media profiles?

When I saw this question, I begun by comparing my social media profiles to my life, I saw a stark contrast. I excused myself thinking perhaps it was a personal thing. So I compared that of a few friends whom are quite close to me and I discovered that for some people their social media didn't match with their lifestyle whilst for some, there was some similarities. I didn't find one person whose social media profile presented an accurate version of their normal personality.

I came to the conclusion that although there may be similarities between a persons profile and his real life personality, basing your judgement upon social media alone will give incorrect results.

I would roughly group social media activity into these

1. Non-active
2. Semi-active
3. Highly active

For the Non-active, there is little or no information on their social media with which to even judge them.

For the semi active, there may be insufficient data with which to judge their personality.

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For the highly active, there is sufficient data but the all important question now becomes ; does this data correlate their personality or is it for online clout?

For you to understand a person, you may have to marry his online profile with his real life personality.

A lot of people have mentioned that upon their first physical meeting with someone they have previously met online, the expectation rarely tallies the reality.

I will drop three examples of social media life being different from the actual life of the person(s)
a) Feminism; some women and even men claim to be feminists online but in their daily lives the opposite is the case; they don't split bills, they don't support women empowerment, or preach equality, they maintain gender roles at home.

b) Alpha males; the trend of men who are strong emotionally and mentally to withstand female manipulation is more popular online than in real life, a lot of men who preach this online do in fact, the opposite in life.

c) Couple goals; some partners use social media as a tool for Public displays of affection (PDA) but oftentimes there are reports that behind the scenes, the marriage is an unhappy one, sometimes even filled with violence and in extreme circumstances there is a messy breakup or divorce bringing every hidden detail to light.

This is to further prove my point; social media is not a complete tool for judgement.
Not to talk of the "packaging" that is soo rampant on social media, whereby people claim to be who they are not, do what they can not or own what they do not.
People also deny who they are, what they do (can do) and oftentimes, we believe these people until someone who knows them personally voices out the discrepancy.

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