I recently took the Pew Research's "How Millennial Are You?" quiz, and scored in the 70s. The survey asked a handful of questions, based on texting, how many hours of tv you watch, internet usage, video games, and if you read the newspaper. I had other friends that scored in the 20s, and some in the 30s.
Taking this quiz made me think about social media. You know what I'm talking about--the Facebook, the Twitter, the Tumblr, the Digg, the Myspace...and the list goes on and on and on. I consider myself to be somewhat in the middle with the social media game. In my office, I am like the Queen Bee of social media, mainly because my coworkers don't get how to use it, much less how to save attachments from e-mails, but that's another story for another day.
In my group of friends, I am pretty much the connected one. I have some friends on LinkedIn, and definitely most everyone I know is on Facebook. But I also know some people in their 20s that want nothing to do with Twitter. Those people are the same people that don't have internet on their phones* and aren't regular e-mail checkers.
But while I love my Twittering, and blogging, and Facebooking, I also don't become obsessed with it. I mean, sure it's part of my job to do it, and I like the community that's created with social media. I like that people can read my thoughts and respond to them, and I can feel like my voice is being heard. But in the big scheme of things, I don't consider myself a social media lover per se. When I get on Twitter and start to see all these tweets about social media conferences, and what's the future of the web, etc etc., I lose interest. I become bored, and willingly mark those tweets as read and erase them. I don't have the passion for social media that some people my age do. But I at least have the smarts to try it all out so I can at least know what's going on out there.
What about you? Are you a social media lover or a hater?
*I don't have internet on my phone either but that's mainly because I think it'd be a waste of my time and it's easier to check stuff on a real computer, not to mention I don't want to pay for a data plan.
5 comments:
i hate social media. i really do...i think it's made us void of certain human interaction. we almost don't even know how to act around each other anymore...it's hard to keep emotional conversations...i don't know...i feel that we were better human beings before...
i still use social media but only because its practically a requirement...
I love it! I scored 88 and any other day, I'm guessing it would have been higher because I didn't watch TV yesterday.
Imerika- I agree with you. It's sad that we can just Facebook people instead of actually picking up the phone to call or god forbid, actually meet up with that person face to face. But like you said, it's pretty much a requirement now to know it, at least in the job world. *sigh*
Just a girl- You're the only person I know who scored higher than me on that test. Awesomeness.
I scored an 81! Wow!
Gary- Wow! That's pretty high!
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