Re-reflection of My Use of Social Media
Looking back at my first blog post for the class, I don’t think I have changed much of how I use social media on a daily basis. The same routine still goes on the majority of the time when I open my internet browers, “check my personal email and school email, look at news feed on Facebook, read timeline on Twitter and then scroll through my Tumblr dashboard.” I constantly check my emails, whenever I get the chance because I am applying to jobs, so I’m always hoping someone will be emailing to request an interview.
I also noticed I use Facebook less compare to the beginning of the semester. Maybe because of the new Facebook layout change and the way news feed is placed and ordered. News feed seem to be more clutter and harder to get information I need and want to see. It might also have to do with how I have less time to do school work and many other things so I simply don’t have the time to log on to Facebook constantly to check up on what everyone is doing.
I definitely use Twitter more often than I did before. I also became more mindful of my audience when I tweet on my personal Twitter account and my public Twitter account. My personal twitter account is filled with me blabbing about the traffic and other unimportant detail of my day that I believe my friends would care about. Whereas on my public Twitter account, I like to retweet articles related to social media, technology, marketing and advertising that I think the unknown audience would be interested in. For my public Twitter account, I check what I say and make sure it’s appropriate since it is a reflection of me.
For the future, my use of social media will not be changed too much – I will still have different voice/medium I use for public and private. Because not the entire world needs to know where or what I ate for lunch. I will still be careful the sort of information I share on the internet because the understanding I have of the different privacy settings on different social media platform, and the information they take for advertisers.