BLOG #10

Social Media 


At one point in my late teens social media played a vital role in my life I felt that I needed to be on Facebook every second in the day. During this time period in my late high school someone began to cyber bully me and I didn't know who it was. Around this time fake pages were very popular and there was obviously someone behind this page, they would literally comment on every single status I made and picture I posted. This mysterious would say mean things like "No one likes you" or "Your ugly" It really bothered me being that I was pretty much a quite person and stayed to myself. After this continued on for  about a month I found myself disconnecting from Facebook for two months and I deleted that entire page and created a new one. Luckily there has not been anymore mysterious persons added on my page. Ever since that happened I just found myself adding people who were family or friends and it still is like that til this day. I can say that ever since that happened I don't find myself being on social media, I find myself using it mainly when I am bored so I have cut back a lot on my social media I just find myself browsing through here and there I can say I check my social media around 2 tow 3 times a day and that is about it I mainly just check notifications for events or articles. I really feel that social media is mainly used to see what is going on in others lives whether we keep in contact with them or not.  I am not for sure if the full usage of social media will be positive or improve interpersonal relationships because there can be a lot of misinterpretation of communication and that can cause a lot of problems.  

Unplugging from Social Media,

OMG! In the beginning I thought this was going to be a hard task for me, having to not use any of my social media accounts for a whole day but it really wasn't  instead I really enjoyed it. I feel that it was easy for me being that I only social media to find out news and articles, I am barely on any social media anyways being that I have other major responsibilities. Believe it or not I am very surprised about the results I even found myself forgetting to re upload my Facebook and snap chat apps. Another good outcome from me deleting social media for a day was  how it helped me recognize that all of the friends I found myself communicating with through Facebook and Snap chat still kept in contact with me via phone calls and text messages.  I am actually reconsidering deleting them in the near future.

Comm 303 has been a very interesting class and I can say that I learned a great deal of information in regards to communication technology it has taught me to look at some technology in a different way. What  really stood out to me the most throughout the semester was the portion about television, I say this because I never really thought how much communication is depicted through T.V. Learning how much the television has changed over the years and the historical background really caught my attention. The course overall has made me aware of my daily interaction with communication technology and has kind of made want to reduce my usage of certain communication technology like mobile internet and social media. I really enjoyed this course and I can say that I am taking with me a great deal of knowledge.