Social Media 373

 In this weeks blog, the topic that really stood out to me was to reflect on my own social media content. It made me realize that the only platform I actually post on is instagram and sometimes snapchat. Before this past December, I had not posted a picture on instagram since may which I found a little weird because normally I post pretty consistently.  Since my "comeback" post in December, I have posted four more times and it consisted the same content I was posting a year prior which is lacrosse pictures and pictures of me and my girlfriend. I believe that those two things reflect the main things in my life and that's why I post them. The people I wanted to see these pictures when I posted them are basically just my old high school friends to kind of give them an update on how my life is going and I always get a great response in the comment sections.  When it comes to my snapchat, I usually just post pictures of me and my friends when I'm out at the bar or at parti

 The media log assignment was a very eye opening project. It allowed me to truly focus on how much time I was spending on technology and I was actually very surprised at how little time I spent looking at screens. In my opinion however, I think that knowing I'm logging in my hours, my screen time was reduced because I became very conscious of how much time I was spending.  Another aspect to consider for my low screen time is the time of year for me. Right now I am in season for lacrosse and have early morning practices which means Im going to sleep a lot earlier than I normally do. I am extremely curious as to how many hours I spend on social media, especially TikTok, during the summer time when I am not as busy and going to bed very late because I always caught myself at late times like four in the morning, just scrolling through TikTok Overall, I believe that my screen time is at a healthy stage right now. I obviously would like to keep it like that but I know that once the seaso