Social Media as a New Tool for Human Communication & Connection
Everyone has an opinion on the morality of social media use, and about what it means to use social media - you have an opinion on these matters yourself! But do you really know the complexity of this thing you are forming an opinion about? In a time when the terms 'social media' and 'new media' are too often used incorrectly, I hope to help you understand not only what these terms mean, but also to understand that this new tool, by definition, is hard to understand completely. Especially since we are in the midst of constantly experiencing new media every day! I decided to talk to people about their social media experiences: their perceptions, the impact it's had on their lives, their best and worst moments, and what they thought made social media experiences different from those is real life. In these interviews, I discovered that just as in society, everyone chooses to use social tools to interact with each other at varying frequencies and venues, and that we al