Culture, trends and evolution
With a growing number of people having online profiles, many traditional identifying traits such as race, religion, political views and gender are becoming less and less apparent, consequently less applicable to online communities. This may even be leading to less obligations, expectations or desire to adhere to traditional, societal and cultural norms. Online social networks, as a result are shaping their own identifying traits for users, such as how many friends someone has, how many photos they have, do they share their pictures with everyone and so forth, thus giving us other dimensions on which to profile or define one another. This form of interaction can arguably be considered a culture in its own right (the ‘social media culture’), irrespective of nationality, background, political views or socio-economic status