My media account week was very applicable with the upcoming assignment of the rhetorical analysis.  The simultaneous assignments really allowed me to take a different approach to my media account week.

My favorite piece of this week was the Spotify playlist.  Although I have never used Spotify before, the program was easy to use and allowed me to choose a specific playlist.  As a music enthusiast, this assignment was also quite difficult.  Because I enjoy a large array of music genre, it was hard to choose a specific playlist.  To make it easier on myself, I established a rule to choose a maximum of two songs per artists.  For example, I would have liked to choose 15 different Frank Sinatra songs as well as a multitude of songs by Katy Perry.  However, if I were to compile a playlist with just Frank Sinatra and Katy Perry, my playlist would not speak to my diversity in musical taste.  I thought the playlist to my life would consist of a large amount of variety in music as my interests in life, in general, are very diverse.  As for my theme song, it would definitely be “I Miss You” by Blink-182.  Since I have come to BC, my friends and I have found a common love for the song.  In many ways this song has built a very deep friendship.

Although I am an avid Twitter user, this piece of the assignment also came with some difficulty.  As I state in my rhetorical analysis, I do not compose my own tweets very often.  At the beginning of the assignment, I was lost in what to post to Twitter.  I wasn’t sure what was applicable or appropriate for the class.  However, looking at previous Twitter posts, I came to realize that the best posts are those that are most simple.  By the end of the week, the Twitter account was a lot of fun for me.  My favorite post was definitely the one about double spacing in writing (ironically enough, I realized right here that I was writing with double spaces and went back to fix it).  The debate in class was very entertaining and one of my favorite classes of the year so far.  Nonetheless, my adaptation to Twitter by the end of the week was evident.

Instagram was by far the most difficult part of media account week.  When I say I didn’t know what I was doing, I really did not know what I was doing.  I came up with the idea of documenting my trip back to Boston while getting on the train at Stamford, CT.  The first picture on my Instagram took about 15 minutes for me to take.  Luckily my train was delayed because I never would have gotten the snapshot off.  Another implication with Instagram was filters.  My friends with Instagram accounts are constantly speaking about the filters in which they use in their pictures.  When I first scrolled through each filter, I counted about 30 different filters and in my opinion, all looked the same.  However, by the end of my 3 hour train ride, I became accustomed to the filters.  Instagram is a media account that I will likely never create.  The entire concept is based off a very shallow concept of “likes”.  With Twitter and Facebook, there is much more substance that can go into each post.  Instagram severely restricts the amount of content of each post.  Even taking this into account, the Instagram experience was definitely new and entertaining.

Overall, the media account week was a completely new experience in any academic class I’ve taken.  Completing my media account this week, especially with the rhetorical analysis, allowed my week to come full circle.