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Which is correct?
Twitter tip: Don?t call yourself by name in your profile bio, use ?I? or ?me? instead. Speaking about _________ in the third person sounds pretentious and psychologically unstable.
a.?one?s self
b. oneself
Answer: b.
Explanation:
One?s self is considered archaic, although it is still sometimes used when the emphasis is on the self as an entity. You might, for example, speak of psychology as a means of gaining a better understanding of one?s self. However, even in that case, you wouldn?t be wrong to use oneself instead.
People expect that you are the author of your own Twitter account and also the author of the bio, so introduce yourself the same way you?d do it in person.
Referring to yourself in third person ? as if you were not yourself, and not another person speaking to you, but someone talking about some third party ? is called illeism. Ille is Latin for he, the third-person pronoun for males.
Wikipedia has an interesting article about illeism. Here?s a snippet:
? illeism can be used to reinforce self-promotion, as used to sometimes comic effect by?Bob Dole?throughout his political career.[2]?This was particularly made notable during the?United States presidential election, 1996?and lampooned broadly in popular media for years afterwards.
Similarly illeism is used with an air of grandeur, to give the speaker lofty airs. Idiosyncratic and conceited people are known to either use or are lampooned as using illeism to puff themselves up or illustrate their?egoism. The artist?Salvador Dal??used illeism throughout his interview with?60 Minutes?s?Mike Wallace, punctuating it with ?Dal? is immortal and will not die,? although this may have been a reference to the legacy of his art rather than his actual self. The wrestler?The Rock?was notorious for this, mainly to enhance his persona to a superhuman level.
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See also: What?s wrong with this Twitter profile? (It?s a different and even more horrible problem.)
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Source: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/oneself-or-ones-self/
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