Hands-On Assignment 2

 

   I define social media as any internet based platform  where a person or business can share/post information to the public or their own selected audience. Social networking is the connections that are made facilitating social media. The social media sites that I use regularly are Instagram, Snapchat, and LinkedIn. I have other social media apps on my phone but I don’t use them at all. I use Snapchat as a messaging app and Instagram to see what my friends are doing and share what I am doing as well. LinkedIn is used for networking and applying for jobs.

    I use Snapchat and LinkedIn infrequently maybe once a week, but I am on Instagram multiple times a day. I feel like I have a fairly healthy relationship with social media and using it doesn’t affect how I feel about myself or others for the most part. One thing I would say is that I tend to spend too much time on social media which is a little unhealthy. Every week my phone sends me a report on how I spend my time and I'm repeatedly astonished by the amount of time I was on Instagram. When I was in middle school I used Vine frequently and based of my experience with that I refused to download Tik Tok, simply because of the the amount of time apps like that tend to absorb. Even though I had this for thought I've found myself in a similar situation with Instagram reels and it's something I've decided to work on, utilizing my time in a more productive manor.

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