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Nowadays, the cyberspace or commonly called the internet, through social media websites has becom... more Nowadays, the cyberspace or commonly called the internet, through social media websites has become an avenue for people not just to connect virtually with others but also as a means to redefine their personhood or self-concept by creating a virtual version that is different from their physical self. Their " at homeness " in the cyberspace enable them to explore possibilities that they can never do or achieve in the real physical world. Thus, this philosophical discourse used Martin Heidegger's concepts of 'Being and Personhood', and Jean Baudrillard's concepts of 'Simulation and Simulacra' to explain the philosophy behind the distortion and reconstruction of the self-concept of the human person as seen in the social media, and to critic the projected reality of a person, particularly in Facebook and Instagram, as a form of 'simulacrum', and as a manifestation of 'inauthentic'.
Nowadays, the cyberspace or commonly called the internet, through social media websites has becom... more Nowadays, the cyberspace or commonly called the internet, through social media websites has become an avenue for people not just to connect virtually with others but also as a means to redefine their personhood or self-concept by creating a virtual version that is different from their physical self. Their " at homeness " in the cyberspace enable them to explore possibilities that they can never do or achieve in the real physical world. Thus, this philosophical discourse used Martin Heidegger's concepts of 'Being and Personhood', and Jean Baudrillard's concepts of 'Simulation and Simulacra' to explain the philosophy behind the distortion and reconstruction of the self-concept of the human person as seen in the social media, and to critic the projected reality of a person, particularly in Facebook and Instagram, as a form of 'simulacrum', and as a manifestation of 'inauthentic'.