Social Media Activity ICW 9/5

Q: What type of content are your top three posts (or most recent) on your timeline? Is this pretty typical for your timeline? What kinds of social groups/communities are you a part of? Compare what you see with what your peers see. Are there more similarities or differences?

A: The top 3 posts on my Instagram are ESPN’s post about the FIBA World cup. Followed by a friend who posted a picture of himself in a joyous mood. Finally my last post was a meme from a meme page. This is a good summary of my timeline since this is what usually entertains me. One similarity I had with a person from my group, we both had sports related content in our feed. Another person in my group also had a picture of her friend on her timeline. The difference was her friend was not in as much of a good mood as mine.

Q: What is the relationship between what you see in your social media timeline and what you know or believe?

A: Social Media does educate me a lot on what is going on in the modern day. When I follow reliable news sources I do believe I am learning a lot from those sources. However, whenever I do see something offensive or questionable, I either shy away from the report or look for other sources to confirm.

Q: How does your social presence compare with the professional/student biography that you created?

A: My biography gives an outside look into who I am, but it does tell a lot about me and where my priorities are at. There is a little bit more to me when I am a more social person.

Q: Where do you find examples of bias in your social media timelines?

A: I do not see much, but it may be just because I tend to agree or believe a lot of the sources on my timeline.(aka my own bias) If I can I’ll try to find a a two sided story, but one will usually find a biased story when it comes to social media.

● Answer: who do I potentially influence on social media?

I don’t think I influence anyone in particular on social media, but if I had to choose it would probably be my friends and family.

● Answer: who do I engage with most on social media?

The people I engage with the most on social media would be the same people that I probably influence(my friends & family). Sometimes I’ll try to talk to a girl with the occasional DM too.