Social media's influence on my life
As I reflect on the topic of social media and its influence on my life over the last 14 years, I find myself wondering something. Did social media I frequented influence me or did my life choices influence the types of social media I sought out and consumed? Take a trip down memory lane with me as I recall way back to a 16 year old kid, having been raised in the late 90's and now exploring the ever-expanding world of the internet and online socializing in the early 2000's. My last Myspace account profile picture. -Circa 2006 The "filtered" Myspace profile picture. -Circa 2005 I say 16 because that is when I recall setting up my first social media page: my very own Myspace. In the early days kids mostly used Myspace as form of expression. You could have your own playlists that queued up when a visitor accessed your page, your profile picture was the very best image you had in your library and probably took hours to decide on, your posts needed to be convey ...