Social Media Group

The social media group did a great job on their presentation! I think that they showed amazing videos, and the definitions were good and how they set up their discussion by talking about Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr was all great. Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking is the definition of social media found on Google. This was a great starting point. I also loved that they talked about the important points of communication throughout history. From letters, to the telegraph, radio, phone, mobile phone then today with all the different types of social media that is out there. There are so many ways to connect and there are so many things that we can use to communicate it is almost overwhelming. 

When we got into groups, my group discussed snapchat and every detail about it. I use snapchat almost every single day. It's almost a part of my daily life as is Facebook. And the need to always be present online. I see the same amount of pros as I do cons with social media. We always want to be online and we always want to be present that we don't live in the moment. We talked about without Instagram would we take that many pictures? I honestly don't think I would take as many pictures if I didn't have a place to post them. I end up deleting them, and I will admit to taking so many selfies just to find the perfect one to post. Like the 19 year old Instagram famous girl, who worked so hard to build "fame" on Instagram and YouTube that she destroyed her image of herself, and she destroyed who she is through social media. She wanted to feel value and the only she thought she could do that was through social media. The only reason I can really understand why she did it, because at 12 years old she wanted to be fabulous like the girls she saw on the magazines or online. 

Pinterest and Tumblr are infamous for showing pictures of unrealistic beauty that is photoshopped as are the magazines. Tumblr people I don't think are photoshopped, they are just naturally beautiful and honestly it does ruin peoples self esteem. By looking at pictures of these skinny fabulous women, it is becoming more and more detrimental to young girls health. It is ruining how they view themselves and how they value themselves. The Instagram star at 15 was posting bikini photos thinking it was what people wanted to see, so that was the only way she gained value of herself was through others. Instagram and other social medias like this continue to make us more and more narcissistic which is awful and we shouldn't aspire to be like that. Nothing on social media is really that real. With instagram we can post the highlights of our life, then Facebook we post the general parts of our life, Twitter we post our expressions and thoughts regularly, and snapchat is for things that can disappear quickly and it's more for fun. 

I think Snapchat has definitely become a bigger part of social media because it's more fun to send pictures and videos. With those you can add filters of time, temperature, funny faces, emojis and many other things! It's exciting and addicting because you get instant results, you have "best friends" and you can share things with other people. The only downside to it is the stories, when you see how much fun your friends are having without you, say like a concert or just a regular fun party and you are on the couch eating popcorn and watching movies alone, and you see your friends stories and you think that your life is so boring compared to theirs. That is what social media does. Everyone posts the highlights of their life when realisitcally they are doing the same thing as you, and that is something everyone should always remember!