In QQ And WeChat: Social Media Image Selection And Personal Self Expression Analysis

Along with the development of the network society,the social media which based on the network has become an indispensable part of our daily life.People are becoming more and more dependent on instant messaging software due to the rapid popularity of smart phones.39 th the China Internet network development state statistic report shows that the scale of Internet users in China has reached 731 million until December 2016.Literally speaking,the size of Chinese Internet users has equivalent to the total population of Europe.At the same time,the size of the Chinese mobile phone users is growing at more than 10% to 695 million for three consecutive years.In contrast,other personal Internet devices such as laptop computers use frequency appeared more obvious drop.More and more people maintain their everyday social and interact through the mobile networks.As the main leader of the social media,especially instant messaging kind of social media,QQ and We Chat have successfully occupied the life of the netizen,people can complete their exchanges and interaction in the virtual society through the QQ and We Chat in anytime and anywhere.Through the simple words and the fragmentation of the image,people are hiding behind the mask of the screen to participate in social contact.As is known to all,the network is anonymous,but the We Chat and QQ are based on the circle of acquaintances.It is worth us to explore.Individuals in the network society not only through the language to render themselves,the head image,which we had been ignored may also played an important role as a symbol,impacting on the virtual communication and social interaction.Therefore,in the opening of this article,we mainly combed the classical social theory which involving the symbol.Through the theory of symbolic interaction,impression management and media situation to find the foundations of the symbolic interaction in virtual social.Second,by reviewing the vicissitudes of social media image and analyzing the similarities and differences between the image symbols and the emoticons,we can judge the characteristics of the symbolic interaction.At the same time,also analyzed the head image communication for the role of interpersonal communication way.Then,by focusing on the classic case of the image communication,through the individual psychological level,study the influence of individual self-expression which brought by image communication in the virtual society.And also compare the differences between the virtual and reality interaction,especially discuss the image symbolic interaction effect on the current social reality.Finally through the theoretical and realistic support,analysis the degree of the virtual social contact with reality interaction,and explore the relationship between the image communication and the actual self.And I think that,the image communication is derived from reality and also restricted to reality.To some extent,it is a supplement to the self-expression of reality.Although image interaction has security holes,We should look at image communication in a rational perspective from the reality.