Media Summer 2017

                               In 1997 the first social media site that everyone can agree actually was social media was a website called Six Degrees. Six Degrees allowed users to create a profile and then friend other users, similar to social media giant Facebook that most people use today. Fast forward to 2017 and social media has become a daily part of everybody’s life. Social media today consists of thousands of social media platforms, all serving the same but slightly different purpose. For example Instagram caters to the kind of person that communicates through photographs best, and other platforms such as Twitter are perfect for those who communicate in short bursts of information.             When signing up to a social media platform you are asked different questions such as, age, gender, residence, relationship status, educ...

                    If you don’t know what a wiki is, than you don’t know what the Internet is. Wiki’s were created with one thing mind, allow users to create, modify and organize the content of a web page. Remember encyclopedias? Well this is the encyclopedia of today’s generation. One of the most popular Wiki’s around is Wikipedia, which in an article in 2009, “ Wikipedia to limit changes to articles on people” by Noam Cohen , states that the site had surpassed three million articles in 2009. True to the idea that anybody around the world could contribute and edit the web page, a governing body from Wikipedia has decided that its time to make the site more, “mature and dependable” according to the same New York Times article by. This comes upon the realization that the site is influential and dependable to people. Remember when they told you in middle school or high school to never use Wikipedia? Well its because anybody could ...

              Everybody uses social media in some sort of way, until recently I didn’t use any of the major social media networks that most people use such as, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or LinkedIn. To be completely honest I really don’t have the time to be socializing in these networks and worrying about what happens in there. However reality hit me last September when recruiters and professionals where asking for my LinkedIn, people from my classes where asking me to join a Facebook group for a group project, and lastly friends asking me for my Instagram or Snapchat. The end result I ended getting into all of these networks except for Snapchat. The end result was that I got to know more about companies by linking with recruiters and employers, and seeing friends and family that I haven’t seen in years. Until last year I had been doing everything the old way and meeting people organically and in person and it was going great, so ...