My current realtionship with media

April 24th, 2017

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I would be lying if I said that I spend very little time on social media. It really has impacted my life to where when I wake up, I go on it, before I go to bed, I'm on it, and at any other time throughout the day, I am usually on it. I use Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter the most out of every social media website. They allow me to keep in touch with my friends and see what they are doing and for them to see what I am doing. I would say that because I spend so much time on it, in a way it has helped me become even closer with my friends. Social media makes it a lot easier for me to talk to my friends everyday when I am not at school, when they aren't at school, and just outside of school in general. I am able to talk to them a lot more at school because a lot of the people I don't see everyday because I don't have classes with every one of my friends. It has even allowed me to make new friends that usually go to our school. If it wasn't for all of my friends having Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and all of these other sites then I probably would not have them either. In my eyes, social media is seen as a chain reaction because since one person created an account on these website, it caused for everyone to create an account and want one. I wouldn't say that I need social media to stay in touch with my friends or to even live. I find it more on the entertaining side of my day because I am able to learn more about things that I didn't know before. If it wasn't for sites like YouTube and any other internet site, I wouldn't know as much as I do know about current economic situations happening around us. Since I have been in HISP, current events have been a requirements so going on any site to help me find out what I want to read and write about is a lot easier to access than trying to find a newspaper that my family isn't subscribed to. So I wouldn't say that I would be lost without social media, but it does play a big impact in my life because it makes things so much easier to access. These media sites have helped me stay in touch with the whole world because it doesn't only open my eyes to what's nearly around me, but also with our president, our country, and other countries throughout the world.

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