Social Media Superhighway

Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all can contribute to the passing of information and networking of people in different ways. I have had Facebook since 2005 and initially used it to network with students at Michigan State and build potential connections for the working world after graduation. As many now see, Facebook has changed in its primary uses and now include many applications that do not include the same implementation model that it once did. Many of the current applications are for entertainment purposes and not as much networking. I plan on continuing using Facebook as it still hold the majority of the social media user market, but would say that I am striding towards using LinkedIn as my primary social network medium.

I find LinkedIn to be much more niche, and stirred towards what I really am looking for in terms of social networking for jobs and future career opputunities. In my opnion, LinkedIn is much more straight forward than Facebook, and gets to the point in terms of what you are on the site to do. It is very simple to upload resumes and input valuable information that could lead to potential employment.

I find Twitter to be like the last  player to be picked for the pick-up basketball team. Twitter’s  real-time short messaging service is found in both LinkedIn and Facebook, and is somewhat to simple in my opinion. I do not plan on using Twitter much as a social networking tool, and more for just fun and games. I can see how news can be pushed to others using Twitter, but I also feel that the use of RSS feeds are much more efficient, and compabitble with different servicies and programs.

Getting my New Media Drivers License!!

I enrolled in the New Media Drivers License course with the thought that it would increase the diversity of my

A nerd in the making.

education while also adding real-life experience working with adversting based projects. I think that this course offers things that other classes don’t, such as current content about the advertsing industry, real life applications to learn with, and working with students from even larger backgrounds than those from Michigan State University. The course is taught by the CEO of Ingenex Digital, Derek Mehraban. I think that having someone who is currently working in the advertsing industry teaching the course allows for insight on subjects that a student may not get in a large lecture classroom with 300 students. I have worked in the field of technology since I was 13 years old and have seen firsthand how fast technologies change in a blink of an eye. I am hoping to gain knowledge with current best practices techniques when attempting to advertise with the current media platforms found in the market. So far having the ability to create a blog and add content to it is giving me hands on experience that already appears to be very valauble to what I want to do later in my career.