Social Media

For social media week, I proceeded to make a Linkedin profile. I learned that there are a lot of different companies and professions out there on Linkedin that share their experiences and ideas with people. It was amazing how easy it was to create an account. I perfected my account to make it look professional and to make the information on it accurate and current.

I felt like it was easy to engage with the website. The website was self-explanatory on how to operate it.  That alone made me feel extremely comfortable.  I really enjoyed how it entered the data from my resume onto my profile.  It made it easier than spending hours upon hours filling all of that out.  I believe that this will help me come into contact with many businesses and business professionals in the future when I start looking for a job in my field of study.

I found all of the articles extremely interesting.  Everyone has always told us that people can find out what type of person you are on the internet and it may affect your chance of getting a job.  It surprised me how right those people are when I read the article over twitter evaluation.  I didn’t realize how much information someone could get from just looking at my twitter page.  It made me realize how careful I have to be on putting things on the internet.  However, the articles did point out that the internet services, such as twitter, are meant for us to enjoy.  We just have to be careful as we use them.  They are used to connect with people and to take our minds off of other things.

Basically, everyone has some sort of social media account.  This is great because we can find out information extremely fast.  However, that speed can cause problems as many people find themselves creating problems in their relationships because they can reply faster than they can think of what could happen.  I wasn’t surprised by this because most of us have seen people say things on Facebook or an internet site that have ruined friendships or partnerships.  It happens every day because people don’t think before they hit send.  It has really opened my eyes to what I have put on the internet.  Thankfully, I haven’t put anything embarrassing on the internet thus far.  I believe I owe that to my mom.  Having her friended on Facebook has stopped me from posting statuses or pictures because I think about if she would approve of those.  Looking back, I can see that those could have been harmful to my professional future self and I thank her for making me friend her so she could watch my activity.  As much as I hated it at the time, I am really thankful that she did that for me.