Monday, October 24, 2011

Social Media Week

By doing the social media week I learned that I seriously need to pick what I want to do with the rest of my life.  It's hard to pick what I want to do but there are SO many ways I could go with it.  Ever since I had gone on these mission trips with my church I had known that I want to go into a career that helps people, but honestly that doens't really narrow it down to what I want to do.  Everytime someone asks me 'well what do you like to do?' I say I don't know it's hard to explain for me.  The only thing that I really say is that I like to help people, then they come back with suggestions like becoming a techer or social worker but I'm not sure if that fits me the way I want it to.
     I'm going to say I didn't really get much out of this activity.  By being undecided and literally not knowing what I want to go into at all doesn't help trying to follow people on twitter that I don't even know what they are.  I didn't want to be one of those people who are undecided so they could just follow random people and say oh that sounds like me, I wanted to try to get something out of it.  Social media however can help you research what you want to go into.  Say I was a computer engineer looking up things about Apple or Goodle would be a great thing to do in my opinion. 
     I feel like social media is a good and bad thing.  The good things about it is you can get great advirtising from it, get people to notice your business if need be or if you're looking for a job searching different places to get background information would be great if you knew what you wanted.  However, it's bad because employeers can look up your social media pages and realize maybe you're not the best candidate for what they're looking for.  You have to be careful with what you post on social media websites.

2 comments:

  1. I agree completely with your statement about how social media can be good and bad. You definitely have to be careful about what you put on Twitter and Facebook, and how it can be really easy to forget that what you post may not put you in the best light possible.

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  2. I have the same problem you do, I know that I want to be an engineer but I have no idea what kind. Looking up all the different companies for the facebook project made me realize that there are a ton of options.

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