My usage of conventional social media is lacking. At my K-12 school I first heard the term social media in middle school which to the standards of users today is quite old. I had a Facebook account that I promptly forgot after I was told to private my social and found no interest having always been by middle school an introvert. We had specific classes once a semester to talk about the harms of social media and always enjoyed the looks of disbelief of not having social media- since I forgot I had Facebook. Currently I have not checked my Facebook in nine years and have forgotten the password. This is to be summarized as for most of my life until adolescence. I never used social media because I felt more incentivized to see the disbelief in others than to try any of the at the time hip social applications. It was only when I came to university that I got any social media that I had my parents create for me since I did not understand the format of the app. The reason I got a social media account was not because I was interested, instead a social media was required to rush for a sorority. I do not specify what social media as social platforms come and go such as Vine or the rebranding of Twitter to X. Now the reader might be wondering how I was able to communicate and to answer I used the message app that comes installed on smart cellular devices.
My usage of social media needs to change in some regards as I apply myself to the world. My usage of social media will not be fixed, in the immediate future. As a college student my priority is to study and learn as much as I can. The world of media often changes, I therefore will not interact with social media until either senior year where I can post successful works for my portfolio or the summer prior. To be clear I do not classify LinkedIn a Social media nor do I for You tube as the former is used for the purpose of finding work and the latter has original series and artists on their platform. To be honest I find the site Blogger more along the line of social media than either of the aforementioned statements.
