The social media sites that I use are primarily Facebook and Instagram, and I know that they are definitely connected… A large reason why they’re connected is because I have linked my Instagram account to my Facebook. So, if I post a particular photo on Instagram, I can also share that on Facebook. However, there is a certain level of separation here because I have chosen a privacy feature that ensures I pick which instagram to share on fb. This separation probably doesn’t impact my feed all that much because most of my Instagram followers are also my friends on FB; and most of my dual-posted photos are scenic pictures. Maybe it affects my feed in that people who are equally into nature tend to like those photos on Facebook–especially mom-age people. Also, all of my really close friends will “like” the photos on both social media networks. When this happens, the photo I shared will usually stay at the top of my feed, so I guess my feed doesn’t see much of a variety of posts with this occurs (?).<\/p>\n
My mom’s posts appear on my feed a lot because she is constantly sharing links and different information about her yoga events on Facebook. Posts by my best friends generally pop up at the top of the feed a lot too, and I believe this definitely has something to do with the fact that I “like” or comment on pictures\/posts of my friends the most frequently. I wouldn’t consider myself that active on Facebook really, so when I steadily like my friends’ posts, I know that somewhere in Facebook’s data-stalking zone it is easy to track which posts I like.<\/p>\n
As I said, I am not super active on social media. Though, I do love to take photos and post them because I just simply think it is very fun. Most of my posts are pictures of my friends and me, but I also post a fair amount of passages from books that I read that particularly strike me. Likewise, my very close friends and family react to my posts most frequently; and sometimes relatives of my friends will like\/comment on things, so I am connected to them in this way through mutual friends. I’m not sure if my posts are intriguing enough to really influence people in a great way, but perhaps someone has picked up a new book to read after seeing a post of mine.<\/p>\n
Honestly I don’t love that Facebook has access to my information, but I also understand that I literally signed up for that. In the article by the Atlantic, it mentions how technology becomes adopted and ubiquitous, which basically allows for companies and whoever using this technology to abuse its capabilities. While the article was focused on GPS tracking devices, I think it is important to realize how quickly technology spreads and how normalized it becomes. Remember when Facebook wasn’t really a thing? Probably not because we are all at the age where it has pretty much always been a thing. I know Facebook manipulates the hell out of my online shopping habits, and I suppose this is my fault for having “liked” certain clothing stores’ pages on FB. So, I am always bombarded with advertisements. How do I feel about this? Hmm, pretty annoyed, but also only half-bothered. And, really, what can I do? It is the age of invasive technology. We’re all connected somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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