Week 1 B: Social Media Use Today 

    Hey class so my thoughts on social media and how it is used today are kind of mixed. For the most part I think social media is a great tool and benefits a lot of people who have a business. Especially the small family owned businesses. I had a lot of family and friends who had small businesses survive the financial struggles the pandemic brought because of social media. Even though I think social media is great I also believe it has created a lot of issues on all levels, from personal individual issues to issues that affect whole countries and their societies. I don't want to go too deep into the issues but just like with everything too much consumption of social media is bad, but overall I think it has done a lot of good we just have to find a balance. 

    For me personally I use social media for personal use, I have Facebook, Snap chat, and Instagram. Facebook is probably the social media app I use the most. Snap chat I mainly use it to communicate with friends and family because I only have people I know personally. I have Instagram but I find myself deleting the app all the time because I can get stuck scrolling for hours so I try to avoid that by removing the app from my phone. I want to start my own business at some point in my life, I don't know exactly what that is yet but I know I will use social media to help build my company. 

    I personally use social media everyday to just stay in touch with friends and family. This is important to me because I am originally from Chicago and have not gone home in two years. Social media apps like Snap chat make it easy to keep in touch with my family and friends. I also like to go on Facebook and Instagram to buy stuff I might need. For example Facebook has a page called San Diego market place where you can find all sorts of things you might need and for a good price. That is one example of how I use Social media. In the future I would like to use social media to build a company and make it profitable. Social media is an amazing tool with a lot of benefits, but just like any other tool it could be used to either build or destroy so we have to be mindful of how we use it.