The Ideal Self

The ideal self is something that I think everyone wants for themselves. Social Media allows for this happen.
Although I am on facebook, I have always been amused to the people who have friended you when your not really friends, but they know of you. When I first got on facebook I would receive friend requests from people who I did not even converse with in highschool. At the same time I started doing the same, friending people who I knew, but didn't really know. What I was intrigued about was not really being their friend but seeing how they turned out since high school. Comparing myself to others and then wanting to tweek my profile so I would appear to be something that I wasn't. As much I as I wanted to I did not, I had enough people on their that  knew what was going on in my life, so exagerating was never an option and I'm glad I didn't.
Social Media allows for you to become something that your not, everyone wants to feel good about themselves and to feel that people are impressed with you, but what happens when you meet the person and have gotten away from your actual self, your ideal self creates a misrepresentation of you.