Show, Don't Tell: How Attitude DPs Are redefining Online Identity

 

In India, social media profiles focus more on showing off than on expressing personality, so such images are used as profile DPs that reflect one's true personality. In the digital era, attitude DPs have taken their place and become more critical than profile pictures, because through them, people show who they are and how they feel. Attitude DPs play a role in explaining a person's online identity, which can make an impression on people even through a small screen. Through this, people use the concept of showing, not telling, and show their personality, confidence, and attitude through profile pictures. Attitude DP is bold, authentic, and aesthetic, helping show personality —especially girls'—on their profile while maintaining privacy, and it's also essential for impressing people because a first impression has a tremendous visual impact. Whenever you have to choose a DP for your profile, you can use a suitable attitude DP to impress people by showing your confident, independent personality and to create your unique online identity.

The era of visual identity: Previously, people used their selfies as DPs for social media profiles, which served only as an online identity. However, in today's digital era, an online identity on social media has gained momentum, where the image which upload as DP not only reflects the person identity but also showcases their confidence, life principles, independent personality, and shows who they are, their opinions about life, and who they aspire to be. Attitude DPs are a way to achieve this.

Attitude as performance of identity: Using attitude DP on social media like Instagram or WhatsApp shows your identity and its performance. Through an online identity which shows some attitude through your DP, you do not express your identity by speaking; you show it through the DP you present to people. Hence, people who see the DP get to know your personality and mindset, and it also helps you express your emotions.

Why this matters in social media culture: On WhatsApp, Facebook, or Instagram, the DP posted on it is the first way to impress people, because people look at the DP before reading the bio or talking. If the DP is interesting, then the visitors follow the profile. DP is displayed everywhere on these platforms, along with the name in a small icon, through which it continuously connects with the people. To create a visual story in DP, girls mostly use attitude images because a confident, attitude-filled pose plays a significant role in presenting their personality to others; hence, girls attitude dp have become part of the identity feed on social media.

The fine line between authentic and performative: If an introvert or a quiet person uses attitude DP, it can hurt their profile because attitude does not mean that you are a loud person but it expresses your confidence, personality, life rules and the feeling that you are no less than anyone, hence it is always appropriate for the user to use an image on DP which matches their behavior so that their message can reach the people without any confusion. So instead of using bolder, risqué images to show attitude on their profiles, girls should use simple, authentic, and aesthetic but attitude images in their DP that maintain a genuine connection to their profile without any mismatch. So the show, don't tell concept is only effective when you use attitude photos as a true reflection of your personality to enhance authenticity and performance on your DP.