Monday, December 14, 2015
The Language of Social Media
One of the final project presentations was really interesting to me. The one about the different social media websites, and when presenting the different sites, they talked about the specific language that website had. I really had never thought about it like that before, but it is so true that people act differently and speak differently on different social media accounts. I didn't really notice it as something I did, but it is definitely something I do. Something I think we all do. I personally act differently on snapchat than I do on Facebook than I do on Instagram. On Facebook I am more polite in a way and more serious. On snapchat I am pretty indiscriminate with what I post because it just goes away after 24 hours, and on Instagram I feel like I can kinda be more myself. Really the thing I found the most interesting about this presentation was the part where they put quotes on the screen and we all had to guess which social media sight the quotes came from. I got every single one of them right which is crazy to me! I dont even have a twitter. But being a person who is involved in the social media community, I guess you subconsciously pick up on the different languages in the different sites. Maybe that is why it is so hard for people who didnt grow up with social media to understand how to use it. They are still learning the different languages. I just thought it was really cool that we subconsciously can figure out what social media website something is from with no other information other than a quote.
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I also found that presentation to be really interesting. I guess how we act or communicate on certain social media sites is second nature to us and we don't even realize that we're doing it. I think generally we're all a little more conservative on Facebook and more, I guess, you would say politically and grammatically correct, or at least we try to be as opposed to other social media sites. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that on Facebook, you don't have a username of sorts, it's just your actual name so whatever we write on Facebook could be traced back to us easier than on other sites. Plus, I think we've all heard that similar conversation about watching what we post on Facebook because future employers could look us up and find everything we post and if it's inappropriate, they may not want to hire you or something to that affect.
ReplyDeleteKelly and I are glad you thought about our presentation a little bit more! We didn't talk about snapchat due to the time constraint- but I'm glad you brought it up. On snapchat, I also think we display a different personality as well. There is generally a filter we are trying to have- but as I'm sure you've noticed- many college students lose that filter after they've been drinking. We get so many unflitered snapchats at night, that we don't even know what's going on half the time. This would not be posted on Facebook or Instagram. Perhaps this is because of the audience that uses snapchat, or the fact that it isn't "permanent."
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