Let Me Show You

It is the day before Welcome Weekend starts at Ohio Northern University. You’re frantically opening an Amazon package to find out what goodies you will using and how to set it up. You put a phone harness on your chest but the video isn’t stable! It’s bouncing all over the place and you can’t see faces! What’s next? There’s a harness that goes over your head? But the weight of the phone is too heavy! It’s grabbing your hair and falling! You think of an idea- “if it is falling because it has nothing to grab onto, why don’t we get a helmet to strap it to?” THAT’S IT!  You rush to Walmart with your coworker. You’re in the bikes and helmets section when… there’s so many choices. You were told to get a skater helmet, but you know it would move around— not stable enough. You see other adult helmets. This one has a gear on the back to fit the shape of your head! You put it on, desperately trying to figure out if this is the one! You fasten every strap and you mount the phone to the helmet....

  Every social media platform is a giant in its own way. Most of them have millions if not billions of users that log on daily and are actively engaging with the platform in some way. But each of them has a specific type of post or digital media that you will see the most. While the platforms may want to dominantly hold one form of media, it happens to be that users won’t always see what the platform wants them to. For example, I am going to describe my typical experience of what I interact with when logging on each social media site that I use.  To begin I should tell you that I am not personally a fan of Twitter, I rarely use Facebook and I’ve literally just created a LinkedIn account. I’d have to say that my experience using the platforms I enjoy the most is as similar to the first version of the site as it gets. I don’t tend to see what is trending unless it is in the form of a viral video or some form of activism, but I like it that way. The platforms that I use daily are...