June 2014
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As social media have a tremendous impact on the demographic dividend transforming life in all its manifestations new narratives started emerging. Life narratives have emerged in large numbers as people post their experiences, ideas, feelings and ideas in the process constantly interacting with the members of their group. These digital life narratives through social media in incorporate in themselves the features of an autobiography, a memoir, a travelogue, an album and videos. They share with the autobiography the same urge to communicate, share, confess, justify or to simply bond. Yet social media facilitating real time interaction, the life narratives that emerge constantly help one review and preview one's lie thus being shaped in the very process of narration. The told narrative influences one's inner narrative and the influence is mutual. However manipulating one's identity also has to be checked.