Social media - my experiments and thoughts

Social media - nowadays so often heard and used word, but what it actually includes?

Many of us uses and benefits social media every day and maybe a several times in a day, and we don't even think about it like "hey, this really is that often heard social media". For example Pinterest, which many people knows and maybe uses daily, is one of the kind application, which you won't even think about being part of social media. Facebook and Instagram for one are primary applications, which everyone knows to belong in social media.

I have used social media for a very long time and also benefited it in various ways. I've had Facebook-account for almost ten years, from year 2008 or 2009 if I remember right. Nowadays you can benefit it more, than you could couple years ago. From Facebook you can find alike important and unnecessary information and in these days, there is its own second hand "store" for every single thing you can imagine. In these second hand "stores" shopping is very fast and easy, if everything goes right. But these also provide a great change for making money fast and easy, meaning that also bamboozling is very easy. Currently this bamboozling and stealing has been going up, but I don't know if it's about progressive amount of imposters or progressive awareness of people using these places to buy things.
Facebook can be used also for making different groups for different things, because it's very easy to create this special group for example for a game nights or sport events or like in our case, for a new studying group. You can also benefit these groups for getting and giving advices and in many many ways, which are impossible to list. Along with these groups this is also a good way to get more attention and advertisement for a sports club or different groups. You can create a group for your team or you can conveniently create this special site for your group. This site you can administer from your own user and you get to update events and games and different things about your team (or group) in real time. And this is how your followers and people interested about your team can keep up with the things, just using their phone or a computer. In this site you can update for example pictures and videos additionally with the verbal greetings. 

Instagram is one of these applications I've been using for many years now. Instagram is an easy way to share your feelings and doings for your friends. You just take a picture or a video and post it to Instagram with some hashtags concerning to your feelings or picture and wait for a likes. You can also spend your time easily with Instagram, because you can browse through it and find many interesting pictures and people from there. And of course your likes are being recorded in your own site, so you can find a nice outfit or a recipe later also.
I have an account in Twitter also, but I'm not using it very much. At the moment I only use it when there's some big sports event going on, for example ice hockey world championship games or basketball European championship games. At that time I comment contents of games and update my own feelings about the games and the future. But in a daily use I haven't been able to take this application, while I still sometimes keep track about what's going on in Twitter.

Pinterest is also one of these applications where I have an account. I found Pinterest about two years ago and it's really nice way to spend time and look for a new ideas. There is so wide selection about everything that you could spend hours and hours looking through it. From Pinterest you can find so many different, interesting and amazing recipes, diy-instructions, makeup tips and hair tutorials that I think you could spend a whole day without a break browsing it. There is also these handy Pin-boards, which you can name what ever you want and then gather ("Pin") everything you like to that board and keep everything where you can easily find them again. 

Youtube is also one of these applications I have been using for a long time and still using. I've used Youtube almost daily since it was released. It's an easy way to listen to music, at least until the track or album is on the Spotify. Before Spotify it was really handy way to listen to music without breaks or commercials. Along with the music you can also watch for example tv-series, which are not in television anymore, like this old Finnish comedy series "Kummeli". You can find many Kummeli sketches from Youtube, which was almost necessary when it wasn't in the television anymore. Also there is some movies you can find from Youtube and watch the full movie from there. Nowadays almost all series and movies are in Netflix and you can watch them from there, but for example some Finnish movies are only Youtube. I use Youtube sometimes for watching music videos or listening to some new or unknown artist, which isn't yet in Spotify. Daily I follow some vloggers or bloggers, who casually post also videos. Also I like to watch different makeup or hair tutorial videos, because you can find many useful tips and tricks from those.  From this topic it came to my mind that there is many bloggers that I've been actively following for a many years now. I can't tell what it is about bloggers, but it's nice and relaxing to read about someone else's life and incidents. Also you can find answers for your own problems or peer support or people, who has been going through same things you're going through at the moment. I've heard that for example blogs about losing your child have been very helpful for a people going through that. 

Could be, that I forgot something from these list (haha, I just figured that I totally forgot to mention the WhatsApp Messenger, which I'm using every day a lot!), but as you can notice, social media is one that is used a lot, even though you don't notice or think about it. 

The unforgettable experience with the social media is something I had to think about, but I think that I'll articulate the time when I started my university of applied science studies and there was this new, unknown group of people. We created first a Facebook-group for us and later also a WhatsApp-group. These two groups are the reasons, why our class is so close-knit and easy to be with. I think that these groups really helped to getting to know these new people and creating a new group, because it's of course easier to talk and chat when you're not face to face with new people. I think that changing our thoughts and familiarizing with the help of WhatsApp made it very easy and comfortable to meet these people also in the school. And we noticed that it was easy to be with these people also in the real world, because we kind of were already familiar with each other, because of the WhatsApp-group.

All in all, social media is very familiar tool for me and at this moment I can't name anything new what I'm waiting with it. However I'm quite sure, that during this class, I'm going to be more familiar with the social media and maybe getting acquainted with some new applications also.