Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Social Media

As a 25 year old in 2014 I have more than a little experience with social media. My first experience with it was in 2004-2005 when hi5 was first becoming popular. I was in boarding school and all my friends were creating accounts so I made one, but never really used it. By the time I had moved to Canada in 2006 hi5 was going the way of disco as everyone had moved on to Facebook and this is where my real relationship with social media begins.
You see I spent the first 18 years of my life in Nigeria and upon graduating from our equivalent of high school me and my friends all went to different universities in on different continents. Keeping in touch would have been very difficult were it not for Facebook. To this date this is my main use of Facebook, keeping in touch with all my friends across the globe. Just the fact that every now and then I might see a Facebook status from a friend who I haven't spoken to in years can go a long way to helping me keep in touch.
So this is what social media means to me. 

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