Candis Wimberly Blog #1

 I do not think I am a different person when it comes to social media platforms compared to real life. However, I do believe my tones and vibes differ across all social media platforms. Somehow, each different tone I have on each different platform all make up my real life personality. Not saying I have more than one personality, but my tone of voice and how I act change depending my level of comfort with my environment and the people around me. Similar to how I change the things I post and how they are posted when using the different social media platforms. When it comes to the social media platform Instagram, I do believe this is where I show my creative side. I do like having pictures taken of me, and having the opportunity to edit my pictures to make them more aesthetically pleasing to the human eye. No I do not edit my actual body or physical stuff on me, I mostly edit the things behind me, such as make the sky bluer or the grass and trees greener. But Instagram is also where I show my best side but in a physical way. I barely have posted pictures of me in a bathing suit since I am not so confident in my body, but I will indeed take pictures in all different angles to find the perfect angle of me looking my skinniest. This is where Instagram has a negative affect on who I am and how I view myself. If I do post a picture that I am not so confident in, and it does not get a certain amount of likes within the first five minutes of it being posted, I will immediately delete it. Situations like this have occurred multiple times, and it has gotten to the point where I struggle with posting on Instagram due to the fact that I am scared the picture I want to post now will not get as many likes as the last picture I posted. It is to the point where I am in a repetitive cycle of critiquing myself and it is like I have become a perfectionist when it comes to the content that I decide to post on my Instagram profile. When it comes to the social media platform of twitter, this is where I show my relatable side to society. I do not really post my own content on twitter, due to the fact that I believe the content that exist on twitter is just too good, and I do not think people want to be laughing at every tweet they see and then getting to my tweet about mac & cheese and my tweet just ruining their vibe because no one cares about my love for mac & cheese. But I do indeed retweet things that I am able to relate to, to show that I am relatable and have the same humor or have gone through the same experiences as others have. Twitter content is just too good for me to try to tweet something and ruin it by thinking I am funny. And to the people who tweet everything they are doing at every moment of the day, why can you not just write it in a diary or something? Because I promise you people are reading your tweets and asking themselves why they still follow you. When I do tweet I also am very picky about how everything is worded or is the content even relatable enough for it to even be good content. Even with my every day tweets for this class, I will send it to my mom and best friend to make sure my tweet makes sense and is good content. Sometimes I believe content I come up with only makes sense to me and not others, so before I tweet anything I will send it to them for their opinion on it. My next social media platform is Snapchat. Snapchat kind of gets all the different sides of me. I do not really care what I post on there because it does not stay there forever. With every other social media platform, anyone can go back and see everything I posted, but on Snapchat what I post is gone after twenty four hours so people are not able to go back and look at it after the twenty four hours is up. I do believe that is why I am such a perfectionist when it comes to the content I post on the other social media platforms, because people can go back a judge. But I will post almost anything on snap, from ugly selfies with no filter, to a million videos of my dog just being a dog that no one actually cares about seeing but I feel like everyone needs to see them. When it comes to the social media platform Facebook, this is the side of me that I would show at a job interview. This is due to the fact that every single one of my family members knows how to use Facebook, this is including my sweet very catholic grandmother. I usually just post picture updates of interesting things that I have done, or interesting places that I have seen. Unlike Instagram, I will post pictures that are unedited because my family members are going to think I am beautiful no matter what is going on behind me in the picture. Usually when I do decide to post pictures on Facebook, I will ask myself “which pictures will Mee mee (my grandma) like best?” Which is anything with me smiling and fully clothed. I also do not think it is a good idea to post things that my mother’s friends are also going to see. So my tone across these four different social media platforms change depending on factors such as who is seeing my content, how long they are able to see my content for, is my content acceptable for this platform, and overall does my content reach the standards I have set for myself with each platform.