Erving Goffman

My understanding is that this tendency to perform can be understood from the perspective of social psychology, and it can be considered that either true or false performance is the basic way and means of constructing social roles or images required by people's social attributes.On online social media platforms, people are not only separated by screens, but the threshold for performance is greatly lowered. On the one hand, some performance skills require time accumulation. The convenience of this social media allows people to ignore expressions. The lack of control ability in aspects such as , action, tone, etc.; on the other hand, the operability of performance affects people's true or false desire to perform, such as the same bragging thing, I can say it more easily on the Internet than in reality more exaggerated.

The thesis includes the following points:

1) People perform through symbols in order to win the approval of the audience.

2) Performance classification, mainly "foreground behavior" and "behind the scenes behavior".

The essence of dramatism is how people create an ideal image in the minds of others. Goffman proposes several strategies for impression management, as follows:

1) Performers should cover up those actions that are inconsistent with socially accepted values, norms, and standards, and strive to show consistency.

2) Acts that deceive others. (i.e. "misunderstanding performance")

3) Mystifying performance, that is, keeping a certain distance from others, so that others have a kind of reverence for it.

4) Remedial performance.

"Drama theory" is a very common interpersonal communication situation theory in daily life, which penetrates into all aspects of interpersonal communication. As Shakespeare said in As You Like It: "The whole world is a stage, and all men and women are but actors on this stage, each having his own place of activity, and a man has many roles to play in his life."