Vanessa, 18
Vanessa, 18
Media Consumption: around 3 to 5 hours a day
Favorite Media/Technology: Tiktok/iphone
How do you and your family interact with media/technology?
My family uses it as a main form of communication, as I live in another state. We text almost every day and I call/facetime my mom daily. We use Facebook to post pictures and keep in touch with distant relatives. My mom uses Facebook the most and my sister and I use it the least. We usually just upload pictures every four or so months of everything we have been doing and then don’t go on it for another four months. My family also enjoys using snapchat to send each other updates of what we are doing throughout the day. The best snapchats are the one’s my mom sends of our cat and dog at home.
How do you and your peers interact with media/technology?
I feel like my friends and I use media to keep each other in the loop. We use snapchat to talk to each other. We use instagram to share cute pictures with each other. We use twitter to send each other funny tweets. Media is our main form of communication with each other. I stay connected through their posts on media as it is an outlet to see what is going on in their lives. This gives me an opportunity to reach out and talk about what they shared online, which is an easy conversation starter.
What do you use media for?
I use media to entertain myself mostly. I try to keep my media use limited as it can consume a lot of my time if I’m not careful. I can spend hours on Tik Tok and not even realize where the time went. I also use some media to stay in touch with friends. I see pictures they post on Instagram and I see their snapchat stories. I also use YouTube videos to inspire me to try new foods and places to go and I watch product reviews before purchasing things to see what other people thought of it.
What is your favorite/least favorite thing about media/technology?
My favorite thing about media and technology is how easy and fast it is to find what I need. If my friends and I are arguing over something it is easy to turn to our phones for the answer on google. I also think media is a great outlet for individualized teaching in online course settings. The lecture content is more to the point when the professor can edit and look over their presentation before giving it to the students. I really like the online class that I am currently taking. My least favorite thing is how engulfed everyone is in it. I feel like it consumes a lot of people’s lives and their time. I think people think its way more important than it really is.