Hands-On Assignment 2

Social media is an online platform designed to share content with people all over the world. People are able to share photos, videos, or text posts in an instant with anyone who has access to the internet. Social networking is also using an online platform, but to connect with other people. Social media relies on social networking to establish how content is shared, but you could have a social network without the media technically if the premise was to just connect and message back and forth without sharing photos/videos/etc.

I only use 3 forms of social media. 

1. LinkedIn I check once a day, mostly to just remove the notification that someone viewed my profile or shared a post. I don't actually care to scroll though LinkedIn and interact with content that people post, I only use it to see what jobs are available, to keep my information up to date for recruiters to see, and to network. 
2. TikTok I spend the most time on, I typically scroll on there for an hour before bed. It is my favorite social media even though I don't post anything on there. I enjoy getting recommendations for restaurants and things to do based on my location and I have also found it incredibly useful for my job, which is funny. There are a lot of tutorials for excel, coding, and creating dashboards that make it very easy and quick to learn. 
3. BeReal is a new one for me, I just started using it this month. I only use it once a day (when the notification goes off) and for only a couple minutes. I like that it is not a time consuming app and its users have to take a front and back facing photo without use of filters or editing. 

The apps I use can either make me feel good or bad depending on the day. I would say, overall, they make me happy because it is nice to see my friends doing fun things (BeReal) or advancing in their careers (LinkedIn), and the majority of the time my TikTok algorithm shows me positive or funny videos. Rarely, I will feel a bit self conscious that I am not as far along in my career as others that I am connected with on LinkedIn or I will get a lot of upsetting political/environmental videos on TikTok. But I think it is important to see things that are upsetting so that I don't live in a bubble where I am unaware of what is going on in the world.

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