I plan on focusing on just one of my social media accounts for this blog post, Instagram.\u00a0 I pay most of my attention to this app, mostly because of my interest in photography and videography.\u00a0 When I look back and reflect on how information is shared, I realize there are actually many ways.\u00a0 The main way is the obvious posting of a photograph or video.\u00a0 This type of information sharing is all I was originally thinking there was, until I really dug into how far I could analyze it.\u00a0 A caption for a photo or video is a huge component of information sharing.\u00a0 It could relate to one person on the highest level of comedy, romance, friendship, etc., all the while having zero impact whatsoever on another.\u00a0 When I really sit back and think about that, its really fascinating.\u00a0 Another way information is shared is through tagging people in pictures.\u00a0 I do this a lot, and not only when I am showing a person a picture that they are in.\u00a0 My roommate and I are on the wrestling team, which means we have a strict diet from November through March.\u00a0 We are constantly tagging each other on Instagram of pictures of local foods, drinks, and restaurants that we want to visit once our season is over.\u00a0 It is such a quick way to visualize and share something we are both interested in.\u00a0 On the flip side, it is the means of free advertisement for the company or business that is uploading the content.\u00a0 Okay, I feel like I’m losing people by now, but one more way of sharing information is by using a geotag to show your location.\u00a0 Many people do this in places of high traffic, such as a stadium or arena, allowing others to view content from that same area very conveniently.<\/p>\n
My groups are mostly separated into three categories:\u00a0 high school friends, college friends, and family.\u00a0 Sometimes they do intersect based on common interests, however for the most part they stay relatively separated.\u00a0 As far as variety goes, I believe having these separate groups really adds to the diversity and variety of my social media feeds.<\/p>\n
I notice that most posts I am drawn to fall into one of five subjects.\u00a0 Those being:\u00a0 multiple friends in a picture, a pretty girl in a picture, the quality of the photo is high, it involves family members, or is something I want to share with a specific person.\u00a0 I believe I am influenced by friends on social media by replication.\u00a0 If I see one of my friends post in a certain style, I find that I am more likely to adopt a similar style.<\/p>\n
When I post, the people who react are usually college aged individuals, whether I know them or not.\u00a0 I imagine this is because they see my photos on the “Explore” page Instagram has to offer, and I have also noticed that the number of likes I have from people who do not follow me increases whenever a photo has numerous colors.\u00a0 My theory behind this is that when a person is scrolling on the “Explore” page, my photo is more likely to stand out from others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I plan on focusing on just one of my social media accounts for this blog post, Instagram.\u00a0 I pay most of my attention to this app, mostly because of my interest in photography and videography.\u00a0 When I look back and reflect on how information is shared, I realize there are actually many ways.\u00a0 The main
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