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  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...

Society is all about trends and fitting in. Remember when suddenly every kid in the United States had to have silly bandz? Or when Claire’s came out with the roll on lip gloss? Did you get some too or did you feel left out? The truth is, we’ve all got a very serious case of what’s referred to as “fear of missing out” or FOMO. Even the term FOMO was once upon a time a trend that news anchors reported on and laughed at!  The term trending is used in reference to social media reports on a platform's most discussed topics connected by hashtags that are updated in real time. Now, the social media experts will tell you to use trending topics to gain followers or simply help get your name out there, but why else is it important?  Trends when properly investigated can keep you from looking clueless because, in a way, what’s trending is the latest news. Granted it may not be what happened on the corner of Douglas and Eighth street, but it is the news of the internet which is a world of...

Since being in college, I’ve taken on a whole new view of what the experience is, and I’ve concluded that being a college student is character development . The popular social media platform TikTok has thousands of viral posts about being “the main character,” and “romanticizing your life” all with edgy voice-overs and building music. And I think that by the end of college, I could absolutely curate one of those viral posts that show how much I’ve changed and made myself the main character in my world.  I am now a junior at Ohio Northern University, and I can say with total confidence that I have dramatically changed within these past two years. My freshman year, I was still finding my groove, as most other freshmen are doing. I was independent already, but I was finally independent on my own, living in a space mostly my own, and navigating what I wanted to do next, on my own . At first, I had no clue how in the hell to do that. But then, the first semester passed, and I changed m...