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Social Media Analysis

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Regarding where I used social media, the majority of it would be in my room, train stop, bus stop and on campus. As I've already said, having an internet-enabled smart phone has contributed to having higher media usage due to being able to use it on the go. YouTube was another social media that I frequently used, I noticed that I spent much time using YouTube, activities that I engaged in where watching movie trailers, watched cooking tutorials, dancing tutorials, braiding tutorials, dancing tutorials, make up tutorials and I also used it to watch motivational videos. overall I spent almost an hour or two per day on you tube and the device used was my laptop and at times when waiting for my next class Google is another social media that …show more content…

However, linking all this back to my past life, before all this apps came in place and smart phones, the only device I had then was a mobile phone which only allowed me to send text messages and call and I recall the only app which I was familiar with was hi 5 and chat rooms, the device used were computers and where only accessed through the internet café. Within a short span technology has expanded drastically. Before then I used to prefer watching TV shows and movies on TV because of internet and social media Television and radio is now consumed via internet using laptops, used my iPhone for listening to radio usually in the background of other activities, used while working with school assignment, washing dishes, cleaning, going to the gym. I also used search engine to access online shopping sites, for instance, I found it convenient to shop online, which makes it more quickly than shopping at the store, it may free up time to spend with friends and family. Device Mostly used iPhone and laptop when I want a very clear image of the …show more content…

Further more, social media has made me find it harder to communicate face to face with people and am losing people skills due to spending more and more time on talking from behind the screen .in addition my pronunciation and gramma has also declined drastically, due to abbreviations my ability to retain information has decreased and the willing ness to spend more time researching and looking up good information has reduced, due to the fact that I got used to ease of accessibility to information on social media , for example few days back was working on an assignment with group members , we came across a question that just needed us to think and answer but unfortunately we all thought of using Google

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