Blog 4: Social Media Week

“Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.” – Pete Cashmore, Mashable CEO
      For our social media week I contributed by making a LinkedIn account. Through this assignment, I learned that there are many ways potential employers can find information about me, so I should make sure any information posted about me is in a good light. LinkedIn was a great way to find companies I'm interested in and get my name out there. I feel like I can use this account to my advantage in the future.
      Social media can help accomplish some of my goals. I can find job opportunities and connections with possible future employers. Hopefully, that will help me find my dream job one day. It can also help me give a positive image of myself and my skills. Social media is actually being used a lot throughout the world, not just for job opportunities. In the last link on the Hixson website, it talked about how Mexico City, for example, is using Twitter to let people know about accidents and problems going on in their city. It's a great way to spread the word about pretty much anything.
     The one thing that surprised me was that so many people are connected to some sort of social media. Whether it's Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or another website, everyone around the world is somehow connected. I never really thought about how many people use these websites to stay in touch with other people. Social media knowledge has expanded within the last ten years, and I'm very excited and nervous to see how it will evolve in the next ten years.

Blog 3: What I Learned About Myself

    My MBTI profile taught me a lot about myself and my study habits, and how my personality type relates to my goals.
     I was surprised that my profile said I dealt with the world in a flexible way, and that I'm more of a spontaneous person that an organized one that likes to have things settled. Another thing that surprised me was that I am apparently creative and imaginative. I never have thought of myself that way. I really can't do much artistically, or have a lot of sweet, cool ideas for much of anything. The last thing that surprised me was that I scored as in extrovert. It wasn't a high value, but just the fact that I scored it confused me. I really like alone time. I actually prefer being alone or just hanging out with a few people about 80% of the time instead of being around a huge group of people. I guess it all just entirely depends on my mood and who I'm around though. But I for sure thought that I would score pretty high on the introvert level.
    I think my profile really helped me understand more about myself. I had never really believed I was thinking about the big picture and what was going on around me. But through this I realized that I was, I just didn't quite know it at first.
    Overall, I really thought the MBTI was a cool way to figure out my personality and how I look at things.