Jazzy Potts.. Have you heard of her?

Jazzy Potts was the fake persona I chose for the Fakespace project. I loved this project, it was one of my favorites that I have ever been assigned. It allowed my not only to explore different mediums on the Web, but let me make up a fake person.

I chose Jazzy, at first as a joke, and the she slowly became a half made up person have version of myself, with the visual identity of my friend. I chose her to attend UNC because; I lived in Raleigh, NC and was determined to go to school there, until we moved. I want to get my MBA and that is why Jazzy is getting her MBA. She is a marketing/ Political Science ungraduate major because I am Public Relations and if someone talked about marketing to “Jazzy,” I would be able to hold up a conversation. Living in Baton Rogue, LA was a complete random hometown, but I am facebook friends with a lot of people from there now.

When I was first assigned this project, I thought getting people to facebook me and talk would be very easy, however I was wrong. People from UNC sent me messages upon messages asking “Who are you?” and “Do I know you?” This is proving that people really are getting smarter about “the book” and for all they know I could be a potential employer or administration from the school. However, even with their skepticism, they still added me.

On Facebook and Myspace I had trouble getting people to talk to me. However, a lot of my friends from WVU added me because they were curious about the project. So much "buzz" was generated about this "Jazzy Potts" chararcter that I actually heard people about her and asking if they knew her. This further proves how much these social networking systems run our lives

My final observation was that it was much easier to search and add friends on Twitter than FB or Myspace. I don't think all the kinds have been worked out in Twitter yet, however I really like it and believe it is the wave of the future.


http://jazzjams.blogspot.com/

This is the link to Jazzy's blog that connects to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Google Maps and Flickr