It is not breaking news that Social media has a large impact is everyone’s day to day life. Whether it involves leaving a simple like on the photo or your sister’s friend’s coworker’s pet dog or posting a hour-long video explaining why crocs are the worst shoe ever made. Long story short: Social media has brought people closer together faster than ever before, for better or worse. There are dozens of media platforms people choose for interacting with others online but only a handful are the most popular. And it’s not surprising that most are messaging or include messaging in the app, since that is what people do the most.
The sites that I use daily have changed over time and now seem like eras in my life. For example, in middle school was when I first started using social media and remember that Instagram and twitter where the two that I used to post and browse on the most. And during high school I created a Facebook in order to keep in touch with family and my older family friends. Some sites I found that I used consistency throughout the years were YouTube and Tumblr.
However, I never had many mutuals that I only knew and connected with through an online platform.
Today, I believe that I have been impacted the most through the way I communicate with people online. I can chat for hours with the same one or two people daily and never speak aloud once. Now that I am away from home and don’t have time to actually meet up with friends, I look forward to the time I can spend chatting with online friends. The main platform I use at the moment is Discord where I can join severs and chat to people with similar interests as me.
Discord is a cross-platform chat app for text, video, and voice comms.
Social media has had a positive impact on me now that I focus less on how many strangers like my posts and instead found a way to have fun with individuals I like. Although I may not know them on a personal level, I don’t think I need to. These people have encouraged me to continue to work on digital art and I encourage them in their creative writing. I look forward to my free time I have to chat with my “friends” and enjoy being part of a bigger community.
The One and Only Mars 