I’ve had a Facebook for five years and I am proud to
say it hasn’t changed my life one bit. Some people are avid facebookers, or
tweeters, or instagramers; I am the exact opposite. I am a casual user. I use
it make plans and talk to my friends. I never post anything, unless I feel that
it is necessary. For instance, the last time I posted something was back in
December when I became an Eagle Scout. It is really rare to see a post by me on
Facebook. I do not use twitter or Instagram because those require a little too
much effort and nobody got time for that. While I may not be a devoted fan of
social media, some of my friends are supporters of all three, Facebook, Instagram,
and Twitter. My friend, Aisulu Baibolova from freshman year of high school,
posted “I wish you were here,” on Facebook. Aisulu is an avid user of
Facebook,; she’ll post something every few days. In her most recent post, she
must be referring to someone that is close to her and that she desires their
presence. It could be a close friend, a deceased relative, or a significant
other. She could be homesick, she could be upset about a recent break-up. The
point is she doesn’t give enough information to properly infer; which leaves
lots of room to speculate. Another one of my friends, David Fraley from my Boy
Scout Troop, posted a picture on Facebook of his calculator. The title says, “I'm doing some math hmwk and my
calculator spazzes out....... WHATS HAPPENING!!!,” The picture has his
graphing calculator doing a math error. On the calculator itself it says, “13*40 DAVID,” and then the calculator
says, “ERROR.” David is an interesting character. He leaves everybody guessing his next move. Needless
to say he is unpredictable. So this picture is typically something he would
post. On the other hand, I’ll post something that has a lot of meaning to me;
for example my cover photo. My cover photo is a picture of “The Crew.” “The Crew”
is what I and my best friends call our group. It consists of myself and my
friends Max, Erik, Hunter, Matt, and Sam. I titled it, “If it’s a bar, I’m not
going in!” It was the quote of the night that made everybody laugh. I said it
as we were entering an Irish pub, I was going to be the first one in, but I saw
a bar and freaked out causing me to run outside through every one of my
friends. It was a great night and this picture commemorates every moment from
it. Now remember when I said I didn’t have a twitter, well I had one at a
point, but I never tweeted. I just used it to follow celebrities and news
outlets to learn about them and their activities. My favorite tweet I ever saw
was from Anna Kendrick. She tweeted, “Ugh – NEVER going to a Ryan Gosling movie
in a theater again. Apparently masturbating in the back row is still considered
inappropriate.” People loved this tweet by her; it got nearly 40,000 retweets
and nearly 35,000 favorites. People think Anna Kendrick is hilarious, even
though she does these over-the-top tweets. She is right in the middle between
insane and average. She likes to keep things interesting and people love that.
My final assessment of something from social media is a picture posted to
Instagram by Seth Rogen. It is a picture of a parade style balloon of the Stay
Puft Marshmallow Man. Many people know that this is a reference to the 1984 classic
movie Ghostbusters. Rogen probably just saw this when he was out walking around
and felt the need to post it on Instagram. He also probably "geeked" out over it too.
After analyzing all if these posts I
feel there is good and bad social media. I am not a naturally social person so I
maintain that on Facebook with my casualness. I think due to my lack of posts
on the social media, companies will have a hard time finding anything embarrassing
or incriminating on the internet. I shouldn’t have a problem since my immortality
on the internet is fairly limited.
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