Social Media: Questions and Goals

We’re two days into the first session of summer school at Appalachian State and I’m already buzzing with anticipation to see what the next few weeks have in store. As a lover of social media and a college student studying communications, I often find myself wondering about their interconnectivity and the impact they have on us—individually and as a society—as a whole. I’ve compiled a list of questions and goals about social media that I hope to answer and one day achieve:

1. Do our interpersonal approaches greatly affect mass communication, or are they more individualized forms of communication?

2. A goal I would like to achieve is having an active and accomplished online presence as a professional.

3. As a millennial, I often wonder if it’s appropriate to keep and actively use the non-professional social media accounts I’ve had since I was a teenager. Can we exist both professionally unprofessionally?

4. I would like to have an established personal brand or at least begin developing one.

5. Another goal I have to is to be proficient in the tools needed to excel in the current and future social media.