Yay Twitter!

Blog 4:

What's your own experience with social media been like to this point? Do you regularly use social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter? Maybe you even play a MMORPG or belong to a virtual community or listserv. If you take part in these, what do you value about the experience? What do you get out of it? If you avoid these things, why? Why do you think these forms of media aren't for you?

I have quite a large experience with social media to this point, as most people my age do. I have a Facebook and Twitter account, both of which I check at least 5 times a day. I have no clue what MMORPG is, so it's safe to say I don't play it. I have accounts on many other sites where there is some sort of social media interaction going on though, such as Youtube, Google Plus, Tumblr, etc, but I spend most of my time on Twitter and Facebook. There are plenty of meaningless values I get out of using these, my favorite that I get to interact with and make stupid jokes on my friends' walls/profiles. Another thing about it that I like though is that it lets me reconnect with people. For example, my cousin that I haven't gotten to talk to in years commented on one of my statuses the other day and it made me appreciate the fact that we have this opportunity to reconnect. The same goes with my aunt, she and I keep up with each other by looking at photos the other one posts and "liking" them.