A Peek Into the Mind of Mikey G

When I started reading this chapter I immediately started to think about the news I heard about Mr. Beast. He was offered 1 billion dollars for his youtube channel which may sound crazy until you break down the numbers. I just looked up his video views over the last 30 days and it was 1.027 billion views, his largest video was a squid games video which had 238 million views….which is more than double the superbowl. At the end of the day social media is all about numbers and where it started was how many people liked or even watched my post, but it seems like it has slowly changed into an ad cash cow. Social media influencers exist because of the amount of eyes they get on them and this correlates to potentially how many eyes a company can get on their product. Something else that stood out to me is how much social media has grown over the last 10 years. To me it seems like Instagram has been around forever but the fact that their users have increased from 1 to 2 billion users is crazy...

  My social media usage is pretty limited to Instagram at this point. When I was younger I also used twitter and snapchat pretty frequently but at this point it's mainly just Instagram. I was using snapchat this week to talk to a friend who I don't speak to usually. I think our friendship before revolved around snapchat as a messaging platform so it was almost as if we were falling back on old habits. I noticed that my Instagram usage is normally any downtime or break where I don’t have too much else to do. For example if I’m on break at work, walking somewhere, or using the bathroom. I would say the other major portion of Instagram usage is right before I go to sleep I will spend time scrolling through reels. I am about to graduate so I threw in my Handshake usage because I had gone in and updated my work experience as well as looked at some messages from recruiters. All of my social media usage takes place on my phone because it's significantly more convenient than a co...